Visual Perception

Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5-34

  Slater, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Infant development; Perceptual functioning; Scanning; Sensory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948080042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996348.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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