The Case for Developmental Cognitive Science: Theories of People and Things

Theories of Infant Development

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-173

  Meltzoff, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Infants; Mental representations; Psychological research; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889403496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470752180.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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