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Direct linkSmitsman, Ad W.; Cox, Ralf F. A. – Infancy, 2008
Two experiments investigated how 3-year-old children select a tool to perform a manual task, with a focus on their perseverative parameter choices for the various relationships involved in handling a tool: the actor-to-tool relation and the tool-to-target relation (topology). The first study concerned the parameter value for the tool-to-target…
Descriptors: Infants, Topology, Young Children, Task Analysis
