Variability and its sources in infant categorization

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 515-528

  Arterberry, Martha E ^a   Bornstein, Marc H ^b  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant categorization; Information processing variables; Point light display

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

EID: 0036958699     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(02)00148-0     Document Type: Article

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