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ERIC Number: EJ328559
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Reference Count: 0
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Categorization Skills in Infants.
Sherman, Tracy
Child Development, v56 n6 p1561-73 Dec 1985
Infants exposed to a set of artificially-created face stimuli having distinct mean and modal prototypes showed a pattern of behavior predicted by category abstraction models. Infants appeared to abstract, at the time of learning, a feature-count summary of the category displayed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, Infants, Memory, Models
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Time Factors (Cognition)