Cue salience and infant perseverative reaching: Tests of the dynamic field theory

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-40

  Clearfield, Melissa W ^a   Dineva, Evelina ^b,c   Smith, Linda B ^d   Diedrich, Frederick J ^e   Thelen, Esther ^d  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e APTIMA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 57849133981     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00769.x     Document Type: Article

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