Infants' reasoning about ambiguous motion events: The role of spatiotemporal and dispositional status information

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Träuble, Birgit ^a   Pauen, Sabina ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Causal motion attribution; Causal processing; Infant reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951512106     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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