Perseverative responding in a violation-of-expectation task in 6.5-month-old infants

Cognition

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 277-316

  Aguiar, Andréa ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant cognition; Perseveration; Physical reasoning; Violation of expectation task

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN REACTION TIME; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COGNITION SCIENCES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037527551     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00044-1     Document Type: Article

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