Word comprehension facilitates object individuation in 10- and 11-month-old infants

Brain Research

Volumn 1146, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 146-157

  Rivera, Susan M ^a   Zawaydeh, Aseen Nancie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Development; Dorsal ventral pathway; Infant; Language; Object individuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34047244218     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.112     Document Type: Article

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