Experience Matters: The Impact of Doing Versus Watching on Infants' Subsequent Perception of Tool-Use Events

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1249-1256

  Sommerville, Jessica A ^a   Hildebrand, Elina A ^a   Crane, Catharyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

action perception; agency; goals; tool use

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE; VISION;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; MALE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 54849405319     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012296     Document Type: Article

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