Infant and early childhood exposure to adult-directed and child-directed television programming: Relations with cognitive skills at age four

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-48

  Barr, Rachel ^a   Lauricella, Alexis ^a   Zack, Elizabeth ^a   Calvert, Sandra L ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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