Infants' attentional preference for object-related actions of older children compared to object-related actions of peers and adults

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 533-542

  Zmyj, Norbert ^a   Daum, Moritz M ^b   Prinz, Wolfgang ^b   Aschersleben, Gisa ^c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Children; Heart rate; Infants; Preference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL LEARNING; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PEER GROUP; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIBLING RELATIONS;

EID: 84862277369     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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