Visual Experience Enhances Infants' Use of Task-Relevant Information in an Action Task

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1513-1522

  Wang, Su hua ^a   Kohne, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

choice tasks; experience; infancy; perception and action; physical variables

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VISION;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36348993769     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1513     Document Type: Article

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