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Young infants' perception of the trajectories of two- and three-dimensional objects

Scott P Johnson1, J Gavin Bremner, Alan M Slater

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. scott.johnson@ucla.edu

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|June 19, 2012
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Keywords:
infant developmentvisual trackingdepth perceptioncognitive maturation

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