Infants recognize similar goals across dissimilar actions involving object manipulation

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 258-264

  Olofson, Eric L ^a   Baldwin, Dare ^b  

^a WABASH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Action processing; Infant cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP TEST;

COGNITION; FEMALE; GOALS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651063146     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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