The temporal relationship between reduction of early imitatitve responses and the development of attention mechanisms

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Nakagawa, Atsuko ^a   Sukigara, Masune ^a   Benga, Oana ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IMITATION; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2642518116     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-4-33     Document Type: Article

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