To Touch or Not to Touch: The Role of Vocabulary and Object Exploration in Children's Attention to Shape.
Children's ability to identify relevant object features, such as shape, plays a key role in learning object names. However, successful attention to shape (shape bias) is dependent on other factors, including children's vocabulary size as well as opportunities for object exploration. The current stud...
| Publicado en: | Infancy Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan/Feb2025
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