Conceptual knowledge increases infants' memory capacity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 9926-9930

  Feigenson, Lisa ^a   Halberda, Justin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chunking; Development; Hierarchical; Object

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; LIFESPAN; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 48249099667     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709884105     Document Type: Article

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