Infants' attention to an adult's demonstration of object functions: Evidence for a comparator process

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-60

  Demetre, James D ^a   Vietze, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Habituation; Infancy; Manipulative latency; Play; Stimulation; Visual fixation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742558578     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199803)7:1<51::aid-edp163>3.0.co;2-1     Document Type: Article

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