Reasoning about artifacts at 24 months: The developing teleo-functional stance

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-130

  Casler, Krista ^a   Kelemen, Deborah ^b  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Design stance; Function; Intentionality; Teleology; Tool use

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTENTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846839338     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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