Children’s strategy use when playing strategic games

Synthese

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 355-370

  Raijmakers, Maartje E J ^a   Mandell, Dorothy J ^a   van Es, Sara E ^a   Counihan, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child development; Reasoning; Strategic games; Strategy analysis; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868606313     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-012-0212-x     Document Type: Article

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