The emergence of reasoning by the disjunctive syllogism in early childhood

2016/05/27 by Shilpa Mody, Susan Carey · 257 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · #Artificial intelligence #Behavioral and Psychological Studies #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognition #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive science #Comparative cognition #Computer science #Deductive reasoning #Inference #Linguistics #Logical reasoning #Psychology #Syllogism

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.012

published in Cognition 154, 40-48 (Elsevier BV)

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