Development of naive beliefs about moving objects: The straight-down belief in action

Cognitive Development

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 281-308

  Krist, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intuitive physics; Perceptual motor development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042913462     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-2014(00)00029-0     Document Type: Article

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