How Infants Learn About the Visual World

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1158-1184

  Johnson, Scott P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Infants; Learning; Models of development; Object perception; Visual development

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651498705     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01127.x     Document Type: Article

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