Rethinking Infant Knowledge: Toward an Adaptive Process Account of Successes and Failures in Object Permanence Tasks

Psychological Review

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 686-713

  Munakata, Yuko ^a,d   McClelland, James L ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^b,c   Siegler, Robert S ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Med Res Cncl Cogn Devmt Unit

^c Med Res Cncl Cogn Devmt Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031255196     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.104.4.686     Document Type: Article

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