Breast feeding and children's intelligence

Psychological Reports

Volumn 79, Issue 3 PART II, 1996, Pages 1179-1185

  Johnson, Dale L ^a   Swank, Paul R ^a   Howie, Virgil M ^b   Baldwin, Constance D ^b   Owen, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030340907     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3f.1179     Document Type: Article

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