Children's performance on "animal tests" of oddity: Implications for cognitive processes required for tests of oddity and delayed nonmatch to sample

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 223-242

  Overman, William ^a   Bachevalier, Jocelyne ^b   Miller, Mark ^a   Moore, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030187418     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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