Variations in birth weight within the normal range are related to visual orienting in infancy for boys but not for girls

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 204-215

  Dannemiller, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Birth weight; Gender; Orienting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; PREDICTION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 1842665809     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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