The cues that infants use to distinguish discontinuous quantities: Evidence using a shift-rate recovery paradigm

Child Development

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1162-1178

  Tan, Lynne S C ^a   Bryant, Peter ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034280895     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00221     Document Type: Article

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