From attention to comprehension: How children watch and learn from television

Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-63

  Huston, Aletha C ^a   Bickham, David S ^a   Lee, June H ^a   Wright, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410618047-9     Document Type: Chapter

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