The role of historical intuitions in children's and adults' naming of artifacts

Cognition

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-42

  Gutheil, Grant ^a   Bloom, Paul ^b   Valderrama, Nohemy ^a   Freedman, Rebecca ^a  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Artifacts; Children; Object naming

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0347627897     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00165-3     Document Type: Article

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