Twelve-month-old infants benefit from prior experience in statistical learning

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1247-1252

  Lany, Jill ^a,b   Gómez, Rebecca L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 57649199292     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02233.x     Document Type: Article

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