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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

A model of the development of the early infant object concept

G F Luger, T G Bower, J G Wishart

    Perception
    |January 1, 1983
    PubMed

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