The role of imagination in facilitating deductive reasoning in 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds

Cognition

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Richards, Cassandra A ^a   Sanderson, Jennifer A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deduction; Imagination; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LOGIC; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0032826791     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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