Intersensory Redundancy Facilitates Learning of Arbitrary Relations between Vowel Sounds and Objects in Seven-Month-Old Infants

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-149

  Gogate, Lakshmi J ^a   Bahrick, Lorraine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032059374     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1998.2438     Document Type: Article

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