Information Pick-Up by Infants: What Is It, and How Can We Tell?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 35-49

  Rovee Collier, Carolyn ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associations; Correlated attributes; Exposure duration; Habituation; Infants; Information pick up; Novelty preference; Object recognition; Perceptual processing; Selective looking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0347080231     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2000.2601     Document Type: Article

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