Defending qualitative change: The view from dynamical systems theory

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1639-1647

  Spencer, John P ^a   Perone, Sammy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; INFANT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VISION;

BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; NEURONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 56449114804     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01214.x     Document Type: Article

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