Redundancy matters: Flexible learning of multiple contingencies in infants

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 156-164

  Sloutsky, Vladimir M ^a   Robinson, Christopher W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Categorization; Infancy; Learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 84871769098     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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