Labels can override perceptual categories in early infancy

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 665-681

  Plunkett, Kim ^a   Hu, Jon Fan ^a   Cohen, Leslie B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Cognitive development; Infancy; Language acquisition; Lexical development; Novelty preference; Perceptual similarity; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 37249062606     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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