Category markers or attributes: Why do labels guide infants' inductive inferences?

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1287-1293

  Keates, Jean ^b   Graham, Susan A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; NAMES; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 57649245300     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02237.x     Document Type: Article

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