Reasoning about a hidden object after a delay: Evidence for robust representations in 5-month-old infants

Cognition

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Luo, Yuyan ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^a   Brueckner, Laura ^a   Munakata, Yuko ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant cognition; Memory; Object permanence

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; HUMAN REACTION TIME; PERSONNEL;

INFANTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0038541595     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00045-3     Document Type: Article

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