Using Variability to Guide Dimensional Weighting: Associative Mechanisms in Early Word Learning
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Using Variability to Guide Dimensional Weighting: Associative Mechanisms in Early Word Learning
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01181.x