Effects of prior experience on 4.5-month-old infants' object segregation

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-24

  Needham, Amy ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Object perception; Prior knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344466187     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(98)90052-2     Document Type: Article

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