Infants' perception and production of intentional actions

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue , 2007, Pages 285-301

  Hauf, Petra ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

action perception; action production; action understanding; imitation; infants; like me

Indexed keywords

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848836906     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64016-3     Document Type: Review

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