The role of context in the categorization of hybrid toy stimuli by 18-month-olds

Infancy

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 620-639

  Mareschal, Denis ^a   Tan, Seok Hui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PLAY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VIDEORECORDING;

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EID: 57049128779     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000802458658     Document Type: Article

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