Infants' ability to use object kind information for object individuation

Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-166

  Xu, Fei ^a   Carey, Susan ^b   Welch, Jenny ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infants; Object individuation; Object kind information

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 0033063360     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00007-4     Document Type: Article

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