Can infants be "taught" to attend to a new physical variable in an event category? The case of height in covering events

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 284-326

  Wang, Su hua ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Event categories; Explanation based learning; Identification of variables; Infant cognition; Knowledge acquisition; Physical reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JUDGMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIZE PERCEPTION; TEACHING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 41949135343     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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