Infants' attention to patterned stimuli: Developmental change from 3 to 12 months of age

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 680-695

  Courage, Mary L ^a   Reynolds, Greg D ^b   Richards, John E ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 33646705643     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00897.x     Document Type: Article

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