Developing intuitions about how personal and social properties are linked to the brain and the body

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 430-441

  Choe, Katherine S ^a   Keil, Frank C ^b   Bloom, Paul ^b  

^a GOUCHER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain transplant; Categories; Domain specificity; Personal and social properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867401100     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: 15227219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.755     Document Type: Article

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