It clicks when it is rolled and it squeaks when it is squeezed: What 10-month-old infants learn about object function

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1608-1622

  Perone, Sammy ^a   Oakes, Lisa M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE;

ATTITUDE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 33750919116     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00962.x     Document Type: Article

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