Seeing triggers acting, hearing does not trigger saying: Evidence from children's weak inhibition

Cognition

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-112

  Simpson, Andrew ^a   Cooper, Nick R ^a   Gillmeister, Helge ^a   Riggs, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action imitation; Automaticity; Development; Verbal imitation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRIGGER POINT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84877819042     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.03.015     Document Type: Article

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