Experience-based and on-line categorization of objects in early infancy

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 884-897

  Bornstein, Marc H ^a   Mash, Clay ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR VISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD;

EID: 77953768399     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01440.x     Document Type: Article

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