Memory constraints on infants' cross-situational statistical learning

Cognition

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 375-382

  Vlach, Haley A ^a   Johnson, Scott P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross situational learning; Language development; Memory development; Statistical learning; Word mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS SITUATIONAL STATISTICAL LEARNING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84875799870     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.02.015     Document Type: Article

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