Special section: What counts as an explanation of development: The shape bias as a case study: The shape of controversy: What counts as an explanation of development? Introduction to the Special Section

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-184

  Samuelson, Larissa K ^a,c   Bloom, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY;

COGNITION; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LEARNING;

EID: 40549144890     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00663.x     Document Type: Editorial

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