Communication-induced memory biases in preverbal infants

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

Volumn 105, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 13690-13695

  Yoon, Jennifer M D ^a,b   Johnson, Mark H ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Cultural transmission; Social learning; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL LEARNING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; TEACHING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 51649085578     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804388105     Document Type: Article

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