Early infant grasping involves radial fingers

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 668-674

  Lantz, Cecilia ^a   Melén, Karin ^a   Forssberg, Hans ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FORCE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INDEX FINGER; INFANT; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 8944250213     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1996.tb12136.x     Document Type: Article

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