Infants' visual anticipation of object structure in grasp planning

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-9

  Barrett, Tracy M ^a   Traupman, Emily ^a   Needham, Amy ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature anticipation; Grasping; Perceptual motor development; Planning; Reaching

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIDEORECORDING; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 37449003234     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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