If it's an animal it has axons: Experience and culture in preschool children's reasoning about animates

Cognitive Development

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 249-265

  Tarlowski, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Categorization; Expertise; Induction; Naive biology; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744519073     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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