Choose and choose again: Appearance-reality errors, pragmatics and logical ability

Developmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-333

  Deák, Gedeon O ^a   Enright, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; VISION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGIC; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645835736     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00496.x     Document Type: Article

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