Music interferes with learning from television during infancy

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-331

  Barr, Rachel ^a   Shuck, Lauren ^a   Salerno, Katherine ^a   Atkinson, Emily ^a   Linebarger, Deborah L ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Imitation; Infancy; Music; Television; Video deficit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955590016     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.666     Document Type: Article

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