Expectancy learning from probabilistic input by infants

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Romberg, Alexa R ^a   Saffran, Jenny R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Infant; Prediction; Sequence learning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874716101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00610     Document Type: Article

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