Four themes from 20 years of research on infant perception and cognition

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-147

  Bremner, J Gavin ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animacy; Eye tracking; Face perception; Goal direction; Object trajectory; Object unity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953699620     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.723     Document Type: Article

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