Index finger movement imitation by human neonates: Motivation, learning, and left-hand preference

Pediatric Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 749-753

  Nagy, Emese ^a   Compagne, Hajnalka ^b   Orvos, Hajnalka ^c   Pal, Attila ^c   Molnar, Peter ^d   Janszky, Imre ^e   Loveland, Katherine A ^f   Bardos, Gyorgy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INDEX FINGER; LEARNING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 25444481806     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000180570.28111.D9     Document Type: Article

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