Discriminating signs: Perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 153-160

  Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore ^a   Casasola, Marianella ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

American Sign Language; Discrimination; Infants; Parameters; Perception

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD LANGUAGE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846796396     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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