Mapping the similarity space of children and adult's artifact categories

Cognitive Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 217-231

  Diesendruck, Gil ^a   Hammer, Rubi ^a   Catz, Or ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Categorization; Conceptual development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037844890     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(03)00021-2     Document Type: Article

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