Parts and Relations in Young Children's Shape-Based Object Recognition

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 556-572

  Augustine, Elaine ^a   Smith, Linda B ^a   Jones, Susan S ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; OBJECT RELATION; RECOGNITION; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

EID: 84859353185     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2011.560586     Document Type: Article

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