Visual statistical learning in the newborn infant

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-132

  Bulf, Hermann ^a   Johnson, Scott P ^b   Valenza, Eloisa ^c  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Newborns; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DELIVERY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ATTENTION; CUES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960901757     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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