Two-Month-Old Infants' Sensitivity to Changes in Arbitrary Syllable-Object Pairings: The Role of Temporal Synchrony

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 508-519

  Gogate, Lakshmi J ^a   Prince, Christopher G ^b   Matatyaho, Dalit J ^c  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory visual perception; computational analysis of temporal synchrony; language development; lexical development; word mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 65349141739     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013623     Document Type: Article

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