Relative contributions of kind- and domain-level concepts to expectations concerning unfamiliar exemplars: Developmental change and domain differences

Cognitive Development

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 457-479

  Boyer, Pascal ^a   Bedoin, Nathalie ^b   Honoré, Sandrine ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

Animal; Artefact; Category specificity; Concepts; Domain specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041911439     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-2014(00)00022-8     Document Type: Article

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