Attention, recognition, and the effects of stimulus context in 6-month-old infants

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-106

  Haaf, Robert A ^a   Lundy, Brenda L ^b   Coldren, Jeffrey T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attention; Context; Encoding; Infants; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029692774     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(96)90047-8     Document Type: Article

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