Learning By Asking: How Children Ask Questions To Achieve Efficient Search

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1335-1340

  Ruggeri, Azzurra ^a,b   Lombrozo, Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

20 questions game; active learning; cognitive development; information search

Indexed keywords

20-QUESTION GAME; ACTIVE LEARNING; AGE GROUPS; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SEARCH; LEARN+; OLDER ADULTS; YOUNG ADULTS; YOUNG CHILDREN;

EID: 85040755558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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