Development of preferences for the human body shape in infancy

Cognition

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Slaughter, Virginia ^a   Heron, Michelle ^a   Sim, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body schema; Human body shape; Infancy; Visual preference

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; HUMAN REACTION TIME; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSORY AIDS;

HUMAN BODY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DRAWING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BODY IMAGE; DECISION MAKING; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

BODY IMAGE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VISUAL PERCEPTION; HUMANS;

EID: 0036343030     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00111-7     Document Type: Article

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