Young infants reach correctly in A-not-B tasks: On the development of stability and perseveration

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 435-444

  Clearfield, Melissa W ^a   Diedrich, Frederick J ^b   Smith, Linda B ^c   Thelen, Esther ^c  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b APTIMA INC   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Motor development; Object permanence; Perseveration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MONITORING; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ARM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33744550020     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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