Baby do-baby see!. How action production influences action perception in infants

Cognitive Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-32

  Hauf, Petra ^a   Aschersleben, Gisa ^b   Prinz, Wolfgang ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action perception; Action production; Agentive experience; Infants; Like me

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846375818     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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