Early understandings of the link between agents and order

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17140-17145

  Newman, George E ^a   Keil, Frank C ^a   Kuhlmeier, Valerie A ^b   Wynn, Karen ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agency; Childhood; Cognitive development; Entropy; Infancy

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 78049243427     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914056107     Document Type: Article

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