The emergence of kind concepts: A rejoinder to Needham and Baillargeon (2000)

Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 285-301

  Xu, Fei ^a   Carey, Susan ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEMORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033984654     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00076-1     Document Type: Note

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