Carry on: Spontaneous object carrying in 13-month-old crawling and walking infants

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 389-397

  Karasik, Lana B ^a   Adolph, Karen E ^a   Tamis LeMonda, Catherine S ^a   Zuckerman, Alyssa L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant locomotion; Load carriage; Object exploration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; WEIGHT BEARING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84863006837     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026040     Document Type: Article

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