What is it Like to be a Newborn?

The Oxford Handbook of the Self

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rochat, Philippe ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Consciousness; Experience; Newborns; Perception; Sameness; Self awareness; Sensation; Synesthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925878977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548019.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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