Invariance Detection Within an Interactive System: A Perceptual Gateway to Language Development

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 496-516

  Gogate, Lakshmi J ^a   Hollich, George ^b  

^a FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

computational modeling; dynamic organism environment interaction; infancy; invariance detection; language development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77953141605     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019049     Document Type: Article

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