Development of reading ability is facilitated by intensive exposure to a digital children's picture book

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital book; Language acquisition; Literacy; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904571807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00396     Document Type: Article

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