Eight-and-a-half-month-old infants' reasoning about containment events

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 636-653

  Aguiar, Andréa ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032085102     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06234.x     Document Type: Article

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