Teach to reach: The effects of active vs. passive reaching experiences on action and perception

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2750-2757

  Libertus, Klaus ^a   Needham, Amy ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant perception; Motor development; Perception action; Sticky mittens

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACHING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MOTOR SKILLS; TEACHING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650214485     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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