Learning in reverse: Eight-month-old infants track backward transitional probabilities

Cognition

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-247

  Pelucchi, Bruna ^a,b   Hay, Jessica F ^a   Saffran, Jenny R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Backward transitional probability; Infant language acquisition; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70349838332     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.07.011     Document Type: Article

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