How Do You Learn to Walk? Thousands of Steps and Dozens of Falls per Day

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1387-1394

  Adolph, Karen E ^a   Cole, Whitney G ^a   Komati, Meghana ^a   Garciaguirre, Jessie S ^a   Badaly, Daryaneh ^a   Lingeman, Jesse M ^a   Chan, Gladys L Y ^a   Sotsky, Rachel B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

infant development; learning; motor processes; perceptual motor coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869220349     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612446346     Document Type: Article

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