Attention to maternal multimodal naming by 6- to 8-month-old infants and learning of word-object relations

Infancy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 259-288

  Gogate, Lakshmi J ^a   Bolzani, Laura H ^b   Betancourt, Eugene A ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTION; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PLAY; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 33745647017     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0903_1     Document Type: Article

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