Eight-month-old infants infer unfulfilled goals, despite ambiguous physical evidence

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 579-590

  Hamlin, J Kiley ^a   Newman, George E ^a   Wynn, Karen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 75349114197     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000903144215     Document Type: Article

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