Early infant's use of visual feedback in voluntary reaching for a spatial target

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Pogetti, Lívia S ^a,b   de Souza, Rosana M ^a,b   Tudella, Eloísa ^b   Teixeira, Luis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Infancy; Motor development; Reaching; Visual feedback; Visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885335346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00520     Document Type: Article

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