Does half a pizza equal half a box of chocolates?: Proportional matching in an analogy task

Cognitive Development

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 811-829

  Singer Freeman, Karen E ^a   Goswami, Usha ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0041905329     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(01)00066-1     Document Type: Article

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