Generalizing the dynamic field theory of the A-not-B error beyond infancy: Three-year-olds' delay- and experience-dependent location memory biases

Child Development

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 377-404

  Schutte, Anne R ^a   Spencer, John P ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036514699     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00413     Document Type: Article

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