Infant timekeeping: Attention and temporal estimation in 4-month-olds

Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 475-479

  Colombo, John ^a   Richman, W Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036717206     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00484     Document Type: Article

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