The development of conditional reasoning and the structure of semantic memory

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 742-755

  Markovits, Henry ^a   Fleury, Marie Léda ^a   Qninn, Stéphane ^a   Venet, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

APTITUDE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032085840     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06240.x     Document Type: Article

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