Newborns' perceptual categorization for closed and open geometric forms

Infancy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 309-325

  Turati, Chiara ^a   Simion, Francesca ^a   Zanon, Lara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NEWBORN PERIOD; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 4043175840     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0403_01     Document Type: Article

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