Learning how actions function: The role of outcomes in infants' representation of events

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 351-362

  Perone, Sammy ^a   Madole, Kelly L ^b   Oakes, Lisa M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action perception; Function; Infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; LEARNING; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79957668946     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: 01636383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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