A shift in children's use of perceptual and causal cues to categorization

Developmental Science

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 389-396

  Nazzi, Thierry ^a,b   Gopnik, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034344403     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7687.00133     Document Type: Article

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