An attentional learning account of the shape bias: Reply to cimpian and markman (2005) and booth, Waxman, and Huang (2005)

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1339-1343

  Smith, Linda B ^a   Samuelson, Larissa ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual information; Conceptual knowledge; Infancy; Lexical acquisition; Shape bias; Taxonomic bias; Vocabulary development; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33750710471     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.6.1339     Document Type: Article

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