Perceiving "outside the box" occurs early in development: Evidence for boundary extension in three- to seven-month-old infants

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 324-334

  Quinn, Paul C ^a   Intraub, Helene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RECALL; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847413569     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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