Evidence of a transition from perceptual to category induction in 3- to 9-year-old children.

We examined whether inductive reasoning development is better characterized by accounts assuming an early category bias versus an early perceptual bias. We trained 264 children aged 3 to 9 years to categorize novel insects using a rule that directly pitted category membership against appearance. Thi...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Badger, JR, Shapiro, L
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2012