Perceptual Learning: 12-Month-Olds' Discrimination of Monkey Faces

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1996-2006

  Fair, Joseph ^a   Flom, Ross ^a   Jones, Jacob ^a   Martin, Justin ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MACACA; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MACACA; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84869480579     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01814.x     Document Type: Article

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