The computational modeling of sensitive periods

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 337-344

  Thomas, Michael S C ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHONEME; PHONETICS;

CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646588037     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20134     Document Type: Note

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