Biases towards internal features in infants' reasoning about objects

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 420-432

  Newman, George E ^a   Herrmann, Patricia ^b   Wynn, Karen ^a   Keil, Frank C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Casual learning; Categorization; Concepts; Development; Infants; Internal features

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL BIAS; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 41349120302     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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