Environmental Input and Cognitive Growth: A Study Using Time-Period Comparisons

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1012-1029

  Huttenlocher, Janellen ^a   Levine, Susan ^a   Vevea, Jack ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STANDARD; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032140668     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06158.x     Document Type: Article

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