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Arlette Streri¹, Maria Dolores de Hevia¹

¹University Paris Descartes Paris, France ; Laboratoire Psychology de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris, France.

Frontiers in Psychology

|January 29, 2015

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haptic perception hemispheric asymmetry hemispheric specialization infant lateralization newborn

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