The Effects of Graded Occlusion on Manual Search and Visual Attention in 5- To 8-Month-Old Infants

Infancy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 323-346

  Shinskey, Jeanne L ^a,b   Bogartz, Richard S ^a   Poirier, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

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EID: 0041579646     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0103_3     Document Type: Article

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