Factors responsible for performance on the day-night task: Response set or semantics?

Developmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 360-371

  Simpson, Andrew ^a   Riggs, Kevin J ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VISION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NAMES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 22144481006     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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