Logical (versus Associative) Performance on Transitive Reasoning Tasks by Children: Implications for the Status of Animals' Performance

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 231-244

  Russell, James ^a   McCormack, Teresa ^a   Robinson, Julie ^a   Lillis, Grainne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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