Infants' perception of chasing

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 224-233

  Frankenhuis, Willem E ^a,b   House, Bailey ^b   Clark Barrett, H ^b   Johnson, Scott P ^b  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animate inanimate distinction; Chasing; Cognitive development; Evolution of development; Featural and configural processing

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY BUILD; COMPUTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84871799393     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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