The effect of language cues on infants' representational flexibility in a deferred imitation task

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 632-635

  Herbert, Jane S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deferred imitation; Infancy; Language; Memory; Representational flexibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LANGUAGE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 80052598715     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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