Object manipulation facilitates kind-based object individuation of shape-similar objects

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-103

  Kingo, Osman S ^a   Krøjgaard, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Infancy; Kind representations; Object individuation; Object manipulation; Object shape

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955463948     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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