The medium helps the message: Early sensitivity to auditory fluency in children's endorsement of statements

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Bernard, Stéphane ^a   Proust, Joëlle ^b   Clément, Fabrice ^a  

^a Cognitive Science Centre ^*  (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Fluency; Preschoolers; Social learning; Testimony selection; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923345307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01412     Document Type: Article

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