The role of effects for infants' perception of action goals

Psychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 273-290

  Jovanovic, Bianca ^a   Király, Ildikó ^b   Elsner, Birgit ^c   Gergely, György ^b   Prinz, Wolfgang ^d   Aschersleben, Gisa ^e  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action effects; Goal attribution; Habituation; Human action; Infant cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 41149166112     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2007.273     Document Type: Article

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