The cause of infant categorization?

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 984-993

  Booth, Amy E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Causality; Infancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37249083462     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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