Toddlers' categorization of typical and scrambled dolls and cars

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 374-385

  Heron, Michelle ^a   Slaughter, Virginia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categorization; Gender differences; Human body; Infancy; Sequential touching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CAR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TODDLER; TOUCH;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47849132749     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.12.017     Document Type: Article

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