Move it! Visual feedback enhances validity of preferential looking as a measure of individual differences in vocabulary in toddlers

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 525-530

  Killing, Sarah E A ^a   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

ATTENTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 45349102386     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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