Seven-month-old infants selectively reproduce the goals of animate but not inanimate agents

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 667-679

  Mahajan, Neha ^a   Woodward, Amanda L ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 77949391041     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000903265184     Document Type: Article

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