Learning to Form a Spatial Category of Tight-Fit Relations: How Experience With a Label Can Give a Boost

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 711-723

  Casasola, Marianella ^a   Bhagwat, Jui ^a   Burke, Anne S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

infant categorization; spatial cognition; spatial language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR VISION; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 65649113236     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015475     Document Type: Article

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