From domain-generality to domain-sensitivity: 4-Month-olds learn an abstract repetition rule in music that 7-month-olds do not

Cognition

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 378-382

  Dawson, Colin ^a   Gerken, LouAnn ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Infant cognition; Language learning; Modularity; Music cognition; Rule learning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

AGING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; LOGIC; MALE; MUSIC;

EID: 67349109453     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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