Cause or effect: What matters? How 12-month-old infants learn to categorize artifacts

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-374

  Träuble, Birgit ^a   Pauen, Sabina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 80051718109     PISSN: 0261510X     EISSN: 2044835X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/026151009X479547     Document Type: Article

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