Is perseveration caused by inhibition failure? Evidence from preschool children's inferences about word meanings

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 194-222

  Deák, Gedeon O ^a   Narasimham, Gayathri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible cognition; Inference; Inhibition; Interference; Stroop; Vocabulary; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141884267     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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