Brain, Body, and Mind: Lessons from Infant Motor Development

Toward a Unified Theory of Development Connectionism and Dynamic System Theory Re-Consider

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Corbetta, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Dynamic systems approach; Mind formation; Motor development; Perceptual experience; Sensorimotor experience; Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921554428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300598.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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