Stability in Young Infants' Discrimination of Optic Flow

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-270

  Gilmore, Rick O ^a   Baker, Thomas J ^a   Grobman, K H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KINESTHESIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; VISION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KINESTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORIENTATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1442305372     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.2.259     Document Type: Article

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