The head bone's connected to the neck bone: When do toddlers represent their own body topography?

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 797-810

  Brownell, Celia A ^a   Nichols, Sara R ^a   Svetlova, Margarita ^a   Zerwas, Stephanie ^b   Ramani, Geetha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GESTURES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD;

EID: 77953802951     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01434.x     Document Type: Article

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