Modeling age differences in infant category learning

Infancy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-171

  Shultz, Thomas R ^a   Cohen, Leslie B ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 13844308016     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0502_3     Document Type: Article

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