Predictable locations aid early object name learning

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-352

  Benitez, Viridiana L ^a   Smith, Linda B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Development; Infancy; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84867396334     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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