How crawling and manual object exploration are related to the mental rotation abilities of 9-month-old infants

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Schwarzer, Gudrun ^a   Freitag, Claudia ^a   Schum, Nina ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crawling; Infancy; Manual exploration; Mental rotation; Self produced locomotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878773122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00097     Document Type: Article

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