A developmental dissociation between category and function judgments about novel artifacts

Cognition

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 260-264

  Defeyter, Margaret A ^a   Hearing, Jill ^a   German, Tamsin C ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Cognitive development; Design stance; Function judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249127359     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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