When seeing is not believing: Two-year-olds' use of video representations to find a hidden toy

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 229-258

  Deocampo, Joanne Agayoff ^a,b   Hudson, Judith A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33645223061     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327647jcd0602_4     Document Type: Article

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