Sleep and infant learning

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-46

  Tarullo, Amanda R ^a   Balsam, Peter D ^a,b   Fifer, William P ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Classical conditioning; Infant; SIDS; Sleep; Sleep states

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650913477     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.685     Document Type: Article

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