Rapid categorization of food and nonfood items by 3- to 4-year-old children

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 49, Issue , 2016, Pages 87-91

  Lafraire, Jérémie ^a   Rioux, Camille ^a,b   Roque, Jérémy ^a   Giboreau, Agnès ^a   Picard, Delphine ^b  

^a Institut Paul Bocuse   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Categorization; Children; Food

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949908100     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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