Time to get a new mountain? The role of function in children's conceptions of natural kinds

Cognition

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 327-335

  DiYanni, Cara ^a   Kelemen, Deborah ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact; Function; Nature; Teleology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NATURE; PERCEPTION;

EID: 27444445902     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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