The cradle of causal reasoning: Newborns' preference for physical causality

Developmental Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 327-335

  Mascalzoni, Elena ^a   Regolin, Lucia ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b   Simion, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEWBORN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

COGNITION; CUES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876445818     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12018     Document Type: Article

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