The role of words and sounds in infants' visual processing: From overshadowing to attentional tuning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 342-365

  Sloutsky, Vladimir M ^a   Robinson, Christopher W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Conceptual development; Cross modal processing; Language development

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449113574     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03640210701863495     Document Type: Article

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