Object Function Facilitates Infants' Object Individuation in a Manual Search Task

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-173

  Kingo, Osman S ^a   Krøjgaard, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; OBJECT MANIPULATION; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84860335872     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2011.575424     Document Type: Article

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