Infants' Visual Attention to Baby DVDs as a Function of Program Pacing

Infancy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-305

  Gola, Alice Ann Howard ^a   Calvert, Sandra L ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 79953311129     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00051.x     Document Type: Article

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