Production and perception of contralateral reaching: A close link by 12 months of age

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 570-579

  Melzer, Anne ^a   Prinz, Wolfgang ^a   Daum, Moritz M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Action perception; Action production; Common representation; Eye movements; Infants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862337552     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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