Mechanisms of visual object recognition in infancy: Five-month-olds generalize beyond the interpolation of familiar views

Infancy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-43

  Mash, Clay ^a   Arterberry, Martha E ^b   Bornstein, Marc H ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOGONAL ROTATION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

INFECTIOUS FLACHERIE VIRUS;

EID: 34547670936     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2007.tb00232.x     Document Type: Article

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