Consistent (but not variable) names as invitations to form object categories: New evidence from 12-month-old infants

Cognition

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Waxman, Sandra R ^a   Braun, Irena ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Infancy; Naming

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 15444366989     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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