Experience matters: 11-Month-old infants can learn to use material information to predict the weight of novel objects

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 467-471

  Hauf, Petra ^a   Paulus, Markus ^b  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action planning; Conceptual development; Infancy; Intuitive physics; Tactile perception; Weight perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COVARIANCE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960050068     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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