Action in Infancy-Perspectives, Concepts, and Challenges

Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Second Edition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 167-203

  Smitsman, Ad W ^a   Corbetta, Daniela ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action in Infancy Perspectives, Concepts, and Challenges; Complex Systems; Down syndrome (DS); Mass Spring Systems; Object Manipulation: Tool Use; Perception Action Coupling; Propensities for Solving the Action Problem; Reaching and Grasping; Spring loaded inverted pendulum system (SLIP); The Action Problem; The Study of Action

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952453341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327564.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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