How do children solve Aesop's fable?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Cheke, Lucy G ^a   Loissel, Elsa ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROWS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AVES; CORVIDA;

EID: 84864339087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040574     Document Type: Article

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