Alone in the dark? Modeling the conditions for visual experience in human fetuses

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 214-219

  Del Giudice, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early experience; Fetal; Learning; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 79551618786     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20506     Document Type: Article

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