Shape bias special section: Confronting complexity: Insights from the details of behavior over multiple timescales

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-215

  Samuelson, Larissa K ^a,b   Horst, Jessica S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; TIME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40549116688     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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