Innate Ideas Revisited: For a Principle of Persistence in Infants’ Physical Reasoning

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-13

  Baillargeon, Renée ^a  

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

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EID: 84993815521     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2008.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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