Shake, rattle, and ... one or two objects? Young infants' use of auditory information to individuate objects

Infancy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-123

  Wilcox, Teresa ^a   Woods, Rebecca ^a   Tuggy, Lisa ^b   Napoli, Roman ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 32544445554     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0901_5     Document Type: Article

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