Patterns of Mother-Infant Interaction and Contingency Learning in Full-term Infants

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-45

  Brighi, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contingency learning; Infancy; Mother infant interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742574990     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199703)6:1<37::aid-edp143>3.0.co;2-q     Document Type: Article

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