The role of functional information for infant categorization

Cognition

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 362-379

  Träuble, Birgit ^a   Pauen, Sabina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifact categorization; Form function relations; Infancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; INFORMATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 34548415790     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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