To get the grasp: Seven-month-olds encode and selectively reproduce goal-directed grasping

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 499-509

  Thoermer, Claudia ^a   Woodward, Amanda ^b   Sodian, Beate ^a   Perst, Hannah ^a   Kristen, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Goal directedness; Infancy; Intentionality; Motor resonance; Rationality

Indexed keywords

ACTION UNDERSTANDING; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GOAL-DIRECTEDNESS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANCY; INFANT; INTENTIONALITY; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR RESONANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATIONALITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACTION UNDERSTANDING; GOAL-DIRECTEDNESS; INFANCY; INTENTIONALITY; MOTOR RESONANCE; RATIONALITY;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GOALS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 84883455655     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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