How do infants utilize radial optic flow for their motor actions?: A review of behavioral and neural studies

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 78-90

  Shirai, Nobu ^a   Yamaguchi, Masami K ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Infant; Radial optic flow; The parietal cortex; Visuo motor interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953653558     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2010.00426.x     Document Type: Review

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