Infants flexibly use different dimensions to categorize objects

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1000-1011

  Ellis, Ann E ^a   Oakes, Lisa M ^b,c  

^a GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cognitive development; Infancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33750740419     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.6.1000     Document Type: Article

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