Newborn and older infants' perception of partly occluded objects☆
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This research was supported by grant C00232278/2466 from the Economic and Social Research Council to the first author. We are indebted to the staff of the Maternity Ward, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Heavitree, Exeter, England, and to the subjects' mothers for their cooperation. We thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments on on earlier version of the article.