Innate and learned perceptual abilities in the newborn infant

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 90-94

  Slater, Alan ^a   Kirby, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Innate perceptual abilities; Learned perceptual abilities; Newborn perceptual abilities

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; FACE; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; VISION;

HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSTINCT; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031730755     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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