Investigating motionese: The effect of infant-directed action on infants' attention and object exploration

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 437-444

  Koterba, Erin A ^a   Iverson, Jana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Imitation; Infant directed action; Object manipulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATTENTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 70350622169     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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