Young children show a dissociation in looking and pointing behavior in falling events

Cognitive Development

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-30

  Lee, Vivian ^a   Kuhlmeier, Valerie A ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Explicit knowledge; Gravity bias; Implicit knowledge; Infancy; Object physics; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871421478     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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