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Quantifying Learning in Young Infants: Tracking Leg Actions During a Discovery-learning Task
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Published on: June 1, 2015

The perception of biological motion by human infants

R Fox, C McDaniel

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |October 29, 1982
    PubMed

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