Learning categories by touch: On the development of holistic and analytic processing

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 868-877

  Schwarzer, Gudrun ^a   Küfer, Irmgard ^a   Wilkening, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE STIMULATION;

EID: 0345062314     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03198539     Document Type: Article

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