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Oruro, Enver Miguel; Pardo, Grace V. E.; Lucion, Aldo Bolten; Calcagnotto, Maria Elisa; Idiart, Marco A. P. – Learning & Memory, 2020
During the first ten postnatal days (P), infant rodents can learn olfactory preferences for novel odors if they are paired with thermo-tactile stimuli that mimic components of maternal care. After P10, the thermo-tactile pairing becomes ineffective for conditioning. The current explanation for this change in associative learning is the alteration…
Descriptors: Neonates, Animals, Olfactory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Curtin, Suzanne; Fennell, Christopher; Escudero, Paola – Developmental Science, 2009
Previous research has demonstrated that infants under 17 months have difficulty learning novel words in the laboratory when the words differ by only one consonant sound, irrespective of the magnitude of that difference. The current study explored whether 15-month-old infants can learn novel words that differ in only one vowel sound. The rich…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Cues, Vowels, Infants
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Katz, Phyllis A.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cues, Grade 1
Harley, Randall K., Jr. – 1963
Forty blind children (ages 6 to 14, IQ's 65 to 132) in residential schools were studied to discover the relationship of verbalism to age, intelligence, experience, and personal adjustment. The children were given 40 selected words to obtain definitions, experience claims, and visually oriented verbalism scores. They then tried to identify items…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Associative Learning, Blindness