Six- and 9-month-old infants discriminate between goals despite similar action patterns

Infancy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-106

  Marsh, Heidi L ^a   Stavropoulos, Jennifer ^a   Nienhuis, Tom ^a   Legerstee, Maria ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY MOVEMENT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; RECREATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77955992305     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2009.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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