The predictive nature of individual differences in early associative learning and emerging social behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Reeb Sutherland, Bethany C ^a   Levitt, Pat ^b   Fox, Nathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, EYELID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856092168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030511     Document Type: Article

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