The Role of Contextual Repetition During Fast Mapping on Word Learning

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1792-1797

  Axelsson, Emma L ^a   Horst, Jessica S ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b School of Psychology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attentional demands; competition; fast mapping; word learning

Indexed keywords

TOUCH SCREENS;

ATTENTIONAL DEMAND; FAST MAPPING; LEARN+; RECENT RESEARCHES; TOUCH SCREEN COMPUTER; WORD LEARNING;

MAPPING;

EID: 84897936581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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