Cultural mosaics and mental models of nature

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 35, 2007, Pages 13868-13874

  Bang, Megan ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^b   Atran, Scott ^c,d,e  

^a TERC   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Folkbiology; Mental models; Native American; Science education

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECOLOGY; EPISTEMOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; ROLE PLAYING; RURAL AREA; SCIENCE; THINKING; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; FISH; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; COGNITION; CULTURE; FISHES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 35348859566     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0706627104     Document Type: Review

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