Early development of perceptual expertise: Within-basic-level categorization experience facilitates the formation of subordinate-level category representations in 6- to 7-month-old infants

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1422-1431

  Quinn, Paul C ^a   Tanaka, James W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 35748951615     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193612     Document Type: Article

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