Lexical-semantic priming effects during infancy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1536, 2009, Pages 3633-3647

  Arias Trejo, Natalia ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative priming; Infancy; Language development; Mental lexicon; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MENTAL HEALTH; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 73949091864     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0146     Document Type: Article

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