Fourteen-month-old infants infer the continuous identity of objects on the basis of nonvisible causal properties

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1325-1329

  Cacchione, Trix ^a   Schaub, Simone ^a   Rakoczy, Hannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Essentialism; Infancy; Object individuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84883031963     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029746     Document Type: Article

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