Infants' recognition of causality: Discrimination between inanimate objects and people

Psychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-45

  Kosugi, Daisuke ^a   Fujita, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Cognitive development; Habituation method; Infants; Naive physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044439839     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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