Common mechanisms in infant and adult category learning

Infancy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 173-198

  Gureckis, Todd M ^a   Love, Bradley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 10844220960     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0502_4     Document Type: Article

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