Infants' rapid learning about self-propelled objects

Infancy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-71

  Markson, Lori ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RELIABILITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 32544458316     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0901_3     Document Type: Article

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