Children's ability to make transitive inferences: The importance of premise integration and structural complexity

Cognitive Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 479-513

  Andrews, Glenda ^a   Halford, Graeme S ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001024395     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(98)90004-1     Document Type: Article

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