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Direct linkZaal, Frank T. J. M.; Thelen, Esther – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
The speed of adult reaching movements is lawfully related to the distance of the reach and the size of the target. The authors had 7-, 9-, and 11-month-old infants reach for small and large targets to investigate a possible relation between the emergence of this speed-accuracy trade-off and the improvements in infants' ability to pick up tiny…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Infants, Developmental Stages, Motion
