What can we learn from toddlers about categorical perception of color? Comments on Goldstein, Davidoff, and Roberson

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-245

  Franklin, Anna ^a   Wright, Oliver ^b   Davies, Ian R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Categorical perception; Color perception; Color terms; Toddlers

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549101787     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.08.003     Document Type: Note

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