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Detour ability—being able to get from A to B by a variety of routes when one or more routes are blocked, enables an individual to alter the relationship between the self and a goal through self-movement. Adults make detours via different modes of action, for example by reaching or locomotion, around barriers with different surface characteristics and in spaces both large and small. But how do infants, recently skilled in reaching and locomotion and in detecting the properties of surfaces become able to make detours in such spaces?
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Lockman, J.J. (1987). Detour Ability in Infants and Toddlers. In: Ellen, P., Thinus-Blanc, C. (eds) Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man. NATO ASI Series, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3533-4_21
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