It is not just about location: Infants perseverate to container shape during object search

Infancy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-303

  Noland, Julia S ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSEVERATION; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

EID: 34250737387     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2007.tb00228.x     Document Type: Article

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