The limits of newborn's grasping to detect texture in a cross-modal transfer task

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 523-531

  Sann, Coralie ^a   Streri, Arlette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Exploratory procedure; Grasping; Haptic perception; Newborn; Texture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 48049095497     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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