Variations in 10-month-old infant imitation of people and things

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-91

  Legerstee, Maria ^a   Markova, Gabriela ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animacy; Intentional imitation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANCY; INFANT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37449026072     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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