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Guajardo, Jose J.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Infancy, 2004
Three studies investigated the role of surface attributes in infants' identification of agents, using a habituation paradigm designed to tap infants' interpretation of grasping as goal directed (Woodward, 1998). When they viewed a bare human hand grasping objects, 7- and 12-month-old infants focused on the relation between the hand and its goal.…
Descriptors: Infants, Habituation, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli

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