The role of perceptual skills in newborns' perception of partly occluded objects

Infancy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-20

  Valenza, Eloisa ^a   Zulian, Luisa ^a   Leo, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 26844536108     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0801_1     Document Type: Article

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