Behavioral methods in infancy: Pitfalls of single measures

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1252, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-42

  Trehub, Sandra E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Infants; Methods; Music

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFANCY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MUSIC; NERVE POTENTIAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PITCH; SINGING; SLEEP; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 84860246462     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06448.x     Document Type: Article

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