Abstract rule learning for visual sequences in 8- and 11-month-olds

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-18

  Johnson, Scott P ^a   Fernandes, Keith J ^b   Frank, Michael C ^c   Kirkham, Natasha ^d   Marcus, Gary ^b   Rabagliati, Hugh ^b   Slemmer, Jonathan A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 59249085771     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000802569611     Document Type: Article

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