Where do action goals come from? Evidence for spontaneous action-Effect binding in infants

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Verschoor, Stephan ^a   Weidema, Maaike ^a   Biro, Szilvia ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action control; Action representation; Action effects; Action perception; Cognitive development; Goal directed action; Infancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960161965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00201     Document Type: Article

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