Developmental differences in children's context-dependent word learning

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 394-401

  Vlach, Haley A ^a   Sandhofer, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Category learning; Cognitive development; Context effects; Generalization; Language development; Memory; Memory development; Word learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78649964714     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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