Response to Sloutsky: Taking development seriously: theories cannot emerge from associations alone

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 332-333

  Gelman, Susan A ^a   Waxman, Sandra R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HEARING; INFANCY; LETTER; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; THEORY; VISION; AUDITORY CORTEX; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

AUDITORY CORTEX; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 68249119961     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.05.004     Document Type: Letter

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