Giving the boot to the bootstrap: How not to learn the natural numbers

Cognition

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Rips, Lance J ^a   Asmuth, Jennifer ^a   Bloomfield, Amber ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Bootstrapping; Induction; Mathematics; Numbers

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 33749434503     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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