Rules in the balance: Classes, strategies, or rules for the Balance Scale Task?

Cognitive Development

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 717-735

  Boom, Jan ^a   Hoijtink, Herbert ^a   Kunnen, Saskia ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0038165410     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(01)00056-9     Document Type: Article

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