Limits on infants' ability to dynamically update object representations

Infancy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-262

  Feigenson, Lisa ^a   Yamaguchi, Mariko ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 67651048979     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15250000802707096     Document Type: Article

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