Effects of contingent reinforcement of actions on infants' object-directed reaching

Infancy

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 496-517

  Needham, Amy ^a   Joh, Amy S ^b   Wiesen, Sarah E ^a   Williams, Nicole ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINGENCY LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT DIRECTED REACHING; PHASE TRANSITION; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

EID: 84905727515     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12058     Document Type: Article

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