Nap timing makes a difference: Sleeping sooner rather than later after learning improves infants' locomotor problem solving.
Twenty-nine newly-walking infants who had recently given up crawling trained to navigate a shoulder-height, nylon tunnel to reach a caregiver waiting at the other end. Infants in the Nap First group napped within 30 min of initial training. Infants in the Delay First group napped four hours after tr...
| Publicado en: | Infant Behavior & Development Vol. 65 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Nov2021
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