Three-year-old children's reasoning about possibilities

2023/05/01 by Stephanie Alderete, Fei Xu · 28 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognition #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Cognitive development #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive science #False belief #Logical reasoning #Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques #Mathematics education #Modal #Psychology #Theory of mind

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105472

published in Cognition 237, 105472 (Elsevier BV)

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