Back to Basics: A Bilingual Advantage in Infant Visual Habituation

Child Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 294-302

  Singh, Leher ^a   Fu, Charlene S L ^a   Rahman, Aishah A ^b   Hameed, Waseem B ^b   Sanmugam, Shamini ^b   Agarwal, Pratibha ^c   Jiang, Binyan ^d   Chong, Yap Seng ^e   Meaney, Michael J ^b,f   Rifkin Graboi, Anne ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e National University Health System   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84922710404     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12271     Document Type: Article

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