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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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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