The powers of noise-fitting: Reply to Barth and Paladino

Developmental Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1194-1204

  Opfer, John E ^a   Siegler, Robert S ^b   Young, Christopher J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NOTE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 80051923031     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01070.x     Document Type: Note

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