Correspondences between what infants see and know about causal and self-propelled motion

Cognition

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-192

  Cicchino, Jessica B ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^b   Rakison, David H ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy; Causality; Generalization; Infancy; Self propulsion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REINFORCEMENT; REST; SELF CONCEPT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; WRITING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651112938     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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