Do 5-month-old infants see humans as material objects?

Cognition

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-103

  Kuhlmeier, Valerie A ^a   Bloom, Paul ^a   Wynn, Karen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animates; Constraints; Inanimate objects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MATERIALS; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4043125278     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.02.007     Document Type: Article

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