Why won't you do what I want? The informative failures of children and models

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 349-366

  Chatham, Christopher H ^a   Yerys, Benjamin E ^b   Munakata, Yuko ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Cognitive flexibility; Connectionism; Error driven learning; Gating; Striatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869876083     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.07.003     Document Type: Article

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