Young Children's Imitative and Innovative Behaviour on the Floating Object Task

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-52

  Nielsen, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Culture; Imitation; Innovation; Social learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873992539     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.1765     Document Type: Article

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