Infants' use of featural and experiential information in segregating and individuating objects: A reply to Xu, Carey and Welch (2000)

Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-284

  Needham, Amy ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEMORY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033979440     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00075-X     Document Type: Note

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