Causal-based property generalization

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 301-344

  Rehder, Bob ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Causal based induction; Generalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349207366     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01015.x     Document Type: Article

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