Infants' perception of information along object boundaries: Concavities versus convexities

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 91-113

  Bhatt, Ramesh S ^a   Hayden, Angela ^a   Reed, Andrea ^a   Bertin, Evelin ^b   Joseph, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boundary perception; Concavity discrimination; Infancy; Object perception; Part perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646406042     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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