It's a Sign of the Kind: Gestures and Words Guide Infants' Inductive Inferences

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1111-1123

  Graham, Susan A ^a   Kilbreath, Cari S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

categorization; gestures; inductive inferences; word learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 34548850865     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.5.1111     Document Type: Article

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