Toddlers view artifact function normatively

Cognitive Development

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 240-247

  Casler, Krista ^a   Terziyan, Treysi ^a   Greene, Kimberly ^a  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Conventionality; Social cognition; Teleo functional thought; Tool use

Indexed keywords

EID: 67849133814     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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