Spatiotemporal regularity and interevent contingencies as information for infants' visual expectations

Infancy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-321

  Wentworth, Naomi ^a   Haith, Marshall M ^b   Hood, Roberta ^b  

^a LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL AID; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 33744511511     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0303_2     Document Type: Article

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