Two-year-olds use artist intention to understand drawings

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 512-518

  Preissler, Melissa Allen ^a,b   Bloom, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drawings; Intention; Language; Reference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION;

ART; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 36849009637     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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