The development of perceptual grouping biases in infancy: A Japanese-English cross-linguistic study

Cognition

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 356-361

  Yoshida, Katherine A ^a   Iversen, John R ^b   Patel, Aniruddh D ^b   Mazuka, Reiko ^c,d   Nito, Hiromi ^c   Gervain, Judit ^e   Werker, Janet F ^f  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; English; Grouping; Iambic; Infants; Japanese; Language; Perception; Trochaic

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; JAPANESE; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CUES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 77649186566     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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