Rethinking 'rational imitation' in 14-month-old infants: A perceptual distraction approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Beisert, Miriam ^a   Zmyj, Norbert ^b   Liepelt, Roman ^c   Jung, Franziska ^d   Prinz, Wolfgang ^a   Daum, Moritz M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOUCH; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING; VISION;

HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; THINKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858234700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032563     Document Type: Article

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