Infants' representations of material entities

The Origins of Object Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rosenberg, Rebecca D ^a   Carey, Susan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning mechanisms; Bayesian learning mechanisms; Core cognition hypothesis; Infants; Noncohesive entities; Objects; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199216895.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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