Do six-month-old infants perceive causality?

1987/04/01 by Alan M. Leslie, Stephanie Keeble · 40 citations
Psychology · Neuroscience · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Action Observation and Synchronization #Memory and Neural Mechanisms

paper · doi:10.1016/s0010-0277(87)80006-9

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