Event-mapping tasks: Investigating the effects of prior information and event complexity on performance

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 568-587

  Wilcox, Teresa ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event mapping; Infant cognition; Object individuation; Object representation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0344444685     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2003.05.001     Document Type: Article

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