How 7-month-olds interpret ambiguous motion events: Category-based reasoning in infancy

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-295

  Pauen, Sabina ^a   Träuble, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animate inanimate distinction; Categorization; Infancy; Preverbal knowledge; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 69549109981     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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