Why don't they just let it go?

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 373-385

  Vallotton, C D ^a,b   Harper, L V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Gravity; Imitation; Infant; Physical causality; Rebounding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33744547308     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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