The impact of object size and rigidity on infant reaching

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 251-261

  Rocha, Nelci Adriana Cicuto Ferreira ^a   Silva, Fernanda Pereira dos Santos ^a   Tudella, Eloisa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Affordance; Environment; Infants; Kinematics; Object properties; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KINEMATICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING;

DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33144456522     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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