Young infants haèe biological expectations about animals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 15937-15942

  Setoh, Peipei ^a   Wu, Di ^b   Baillargeon, Renée ^a   Gelman, Rochel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Cedarèille Unièersity ^*  (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Conceptual de elopment; Infant cognition; Self propulsion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL EXPECTATION; COGNITION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; AGENCY; CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; INFANT COGNITION; SELF-PROPULSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; INFANT; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

AGENCY; CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; INFANT COGNITION; SELF-PROPULSION;

EID: 84885078947     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314075110     Document Type: Article

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