Size matters: How age and reaching experiences shape infants' preferences for different sized objects

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 189-198

  Libertus, Klaus ^a   Gibson, Jennifer ^b   Hidayatallah, Nadia Z ^c   Hirtle, Jane ^d   Adcock, R Alison ^e   Needham, Amy ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Grasping; Infant; Motor development; Object selection; Preferential looking; Reaching

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT REACHING PREFERENCE; INFANT VISUAL PREFERENCE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874518547     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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