Sequence learning in infancy: The independent contributions of conditional probability and pair frequency information

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1020-1025

  Marcovitch, Stuart ^a   Lewkowicz, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350104911     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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