Do children think that duplicating the body also duplicates the mind?

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 466-474

  Hood, Bruce ^a   Gjersoe, Nathalia L ^a   Bloom, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dualism; Duplication; Haecceity; Identity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAMERA; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL CAMERA; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MACHINE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THEORY OF MIND; THINKING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; MALE; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL;

EID: 84867404136     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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