The role of feature type and causal status in 4-5-year-old children's biological categorizations

Cognitive Development

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-48

  Meunier, Benjamin ^a   Cordier, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Causal knowledge; Conceptual development; Naive biological theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649089550     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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