Infants' use of material properties to guide their actions with differently weighted objects

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 423-436

  Paulus, Markus ^a,b   Hauf, Petra ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action planning; Conceptual development; Haptic perception; Infancy; Intuitive physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958229585     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.704     Document Type: Article

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