What are you doing? How active and observational experience shape infants' action understanding

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  Hunnius, Sabine ^a   Bekkering, Harold ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action experience; Action understanding; Associative learning; Infancy; Mirroring; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84899657851     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0490     Document Type: Review

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