Shape bias special section: The shape of thought

Developmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 204-208

  Markson, Lori ^a   Diesendruck, Gil ^b   Bloom, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CHILD; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; THINKING;

ATTENTION; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; THINKING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 40549146262     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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