Where infants look when impossible things happen: Simulating and testing a gaze-direction model

Connection Science

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 271-280

  Schlesinger, Matthew ^a   Casey, Patrick ^a  

^a Southern Illinois University   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant cognition; Object permanence

Indexed keywords

INFANT COGNITION; OBJECT PERMANENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

EID: 1842682505     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090310001655093     Document Type: Article

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