Core knowledge and its limits: The domain of food

Cognition

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 120-140

  Shutts, Kristin ^a   Condry, Kirsten F ^b   Santos, Laurie R ^c   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Conceptual development; Core knowledge; Domain specificity; Food; Infants

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD COLOR; FOOD TEXTURE; GINGER; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMPKIN;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOOD; FORM PERCEPTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 67349196745     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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