Newborns' perception of left-right spatial relations

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1797-1810

  Gava, Lucia ^a   Valenza, Eloisa ^a   Turati, Chiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 72449201084     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01368.x     Document Type: Article

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