Infants' object category formation and use: Real-world context effects on category use in object processing

Visual Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1177-1198

  Dueker, Gwenden L ^a   Needham, Amy ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 24644509177     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280444000706     Document Type: Article

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