Should you ask a fisherman or a biologist?: Developmental shifts in ways of clustering knowledge

Child Development

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 918-931

  Danovitch, Judith H ^a   Keil, Frank C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 4043179141     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00714.x     Document Type: Article

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