The onset of reaching significantly impacts how infants explore both objects and their bodies

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-24

  Lobo, Michele A ^a   Galloway, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Grounded cognition; Infant development; Object exploration; Reaching; Self exploration; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84871427673     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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