The development of conceptual colour categories in pre-school children: Influence of perpetual categorization

Visual Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-77

  Pitchford, Nicola J ^a   Mullen, Kathy T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037247706     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713756669     Document Type: Review

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