Predicting visual information during sentence processing: Toddlers activate an object’s shape before it is mentioned
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Predicting visual information during sentence processing: Toddlers activate an object's shape before it is mentioned.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-0965
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2015.11.002