Twelve- to 14-month-old infants can predict single-event probability with large set sizes

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 798-803

  Denison, Stephanie ^a   Xu, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING;

EID: 77955757208     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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