Infants' Ability to Parse Continuous Actions

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 575-585

  Hespos, Susan J ^a   Saylor, Megan M ^b   Grossman, Stacy R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

action parsing; event segmentation; infant cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 63149121859     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014145     Document Type: Article

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