Hierarchical processing in seven-month-old infants

Infancy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 409-425

  Kovács, Ágnes M ^a   Endress, Ansgar D ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINKING; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIERARCHICAL PROCESSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROCESSING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84902292242     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/infa.12052     Document Type: Article

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