Mechanisms underlying the emergence of object representations during infancy

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2935-2944

  Scott, Lisa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OBJECT REPRESENTATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84860401841     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00019     Document Type: Article

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