Beyond the search barrier: A new task for assessing object individuation in young infants

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 429-436

  McCurry, Sarah ^a   Wilcox, Teresa ^b   Woods, Rebecca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Featural information; Object individuation; Object permanence; Search task

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

COGNITION; COLOR; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350401834     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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