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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants' Object Categorization
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Experience is Instrumental in Tuning a Link Between Language and Cognition: Evidence from 6- to 7- Month-Old Infants' Object Categorization

Published on: April 19, 2017

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  • 1Department of Psychology, 405 Langley Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|January 19, 2000
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