Hold your horses: How exposure to different items influences infant categorization

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-93

  Kovack Lesh, Kristine A ^a   Oakes, Lisa M ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Infant cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOG; HORSE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOGS; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HORSES; HUMANS; INFANT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34748889513     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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