Words (but not Tones) facilitate object categorization: Evidence from 6- and 12-month-olds

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 218-228

  Fulkerson, Anne L ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Infancy; Object naming

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD LIST RECALL;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34547652975     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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