Newborns' preference for goal-directed actions

Cognition

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-32

  Craighero, Laila ^a   Leo, Irene ^b   Umiltà, Carlo ^b   Simion, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action observation; Cross modal transfer; Intrauterine behavior; Preferential looking technique; Sensory motor representations

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRTH; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79955888995     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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