Will any doll do? 12-month-olds' reasoning about goal objects

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-154

  Spaepen, Elizabet ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action representation; Categorization; Goal attribution; Object representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE;

EID: 33846635028     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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