Effects of Visual Information on Adults' and Infants' Auditory Statistical Learning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1093-1106

  Thiessen, Erik D ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio visual input; Statistical learning; Word learning; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651478634     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01118.x     Document Type: Article

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