Rigid thinking about deformables: Do children sometimes overgeneralize the shape bias?

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 559-589

  Samuelson, Larissa K ^a,c   Horst, Jessica S ^a,d   Schutte, Anne R ^b   Dobbertin, Brandi N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THINKING;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; THINKING;

EID: 46349098824     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000908008672     Document Type: Article

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