Caregiver's sensorimotor magnets lead infant's vowel acquisition through auto mirroring

2008 IEEE 7th International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-54

  Ishihara, Hisashi ^a   Yoshikawa, Yuichiro ^b   Miura, Katsushi ^a,b   Asada, Minoru ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY STRUCTURE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; INFANT DEVELOPMENT; VOWEL ACQUISITION;

MAGNETS;

EID: 67650158451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEVLRN.2008.4640804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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