Categories, kinds, and object individuation in infancy

Building Object Categories in Developmental Time

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 63-89

  Xu, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 33244471934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410612908     Document Type: Chapter

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