Detecting impossible changes in infancy: a three-system account

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-23

  Wang, Su hua ^a   Baillargeon, Renée ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; FORMAL LOGIC; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

CONTEXTUAL MANIPULATIONS; OBJECT-REPRESENTATION SYSTEM; OBJECT-TRACKING; PHYSICAL-REASONING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; OBJECT RELATION; PLAY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFANT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); THINKING;

EID: 37549007189     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.10.012     Document Type: Review

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