Rethinking Conceptually-Based Inference - Grounding Representation in Task and Behavioral Dynamics: Commentary on " Fifteen-month-old infants attend to shape over other perceptual properties in an induction task," by S. Graham and G. Diesendruck, and " Form follows function: Learning about function helps children learn about shape," by E. Ware and A. Booth

Cognitive Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-148

  Samuelson, Larissa K ^a   Perone, Sammy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 77952320565     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.02.002     Document Type: Note

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