Linguistic cues enhance the learning of perceptual cues

Psychological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 90-95

  Yoshida, Hanako ^a   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 14544268061     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00787.x     Document Type: Review

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