Type of maternal object motion during synchronous naming predicts preverbal infants' learning of word-object relations

Infancy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 172-184

  Matatyaho, Dalit J ^a   Gogate, Lakshmi J ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PLAY; PREDICTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 41749109585     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000701795655     Document Type: Article

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