Reaching and grasping a moving object in 6-, 8-, and 10-month-old infants: Laterality and performance

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-146

  Fagard, Jacqueline ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth ^b   von Hofsten, Claes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Grasping; Handedness; Infants; Moving objects; Reaching; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 62549108616     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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