Infants' understanding of actions performed by mechanical devices

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Boyer, Ty W ^a   Samantha Pan, J ^a   Bertenthal, Bennett I ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A not B error; Action perception; Cognitive development; Covert imitation; Infancy

Indexed keywords

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; DEVICE; ERROR; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79960924949     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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