No two cues are alike: Depth of learning during infancy is dependent on what orients attention

2010/06/08 by Rachel Wu, Natasha Z. Kirkham · 110 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognitive psychology #Communication #Cue-dependent forgetting #Cued speech #Developmental psychology #Face Recognition and Perception #Multisensory perception and integration #Neuroscience #Perception #Psychology #Sensory cue #Social cue #Social learning #Test (biology)

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.04.014

published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 107(2), 118-136 (Elsevier BV)

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