Four-month-olds' discrimination of optic flow patterns depicting different directions of observer motion

Infancy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-200

  Gilmore, Rick O ^a   Rettke, Heather J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; HUMAN; INFANT; MOTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 1442278873     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0402_02     Document Type: Article

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