Toddlers' understanding of iconic models: Cross-task comparison of selection and preferential looking responses

Infancy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-200

  Johnson, Kathy E ^a   Younger, Barbara A ^b   Cuellar, Raven E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 28244460283     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0802_5     Document Type: Article

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