Priming infants to attend to color and pattern information in an individuation task

Cognition

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-302

  Wilcox, Teresa ^a   Chapa, Catherine ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Palo Alto College   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant cognition; Object identity; Object individuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0345550260     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00147-1     Document Type: Article

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