Infants Learn About Objects From Statistics and People

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1220-1229

  Wu, Rachel ^a   Gopnik, Alison ^b   Richardson, Daniel C ^c   Kirkham, Natasha Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Gaze following; Infancy; Object perception; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052850897     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024023     Document Type: Article

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