Perceptual Development in Infancy as the Foundation of Event Perception

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Johnson, Scott P ^a   Amso, Dima ^b   Frank, Michael ^c   Shuwairi, Sarah ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory events; Auditory information; Developmental mechanisms; Infants; Visual events; Visual information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920172185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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