Infants discriminate manners and paths in non-linguistic dynamic events

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 825-830

  Pulverman, Rachel ^a,b   Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick ^c   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^d   Buresh, Jennifer Sootsman ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual primitives; Event processing; Habituation; Language; Language acquisition; Lexical development; Manner; Path

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEXICO; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51249107765     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.009     Document Type: Article

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