Listen up! Speech is for thinking during infancy

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 642-646

  Vouloumanos, Athena ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

FIRST YEAR; HUMAN SPEECH; INFANT DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; OBJECT CATEGORIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

SPEECH;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFANCY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; REVIEW; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH; THINKING; ANIMAL; INFANT; MENTAL FUNCTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MENTAL PROCESSES; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84927176571     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.10.001     Document Type: Review

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