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. 2010 Apr;25(2):138-148.
doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.02.002.

Rethinking Conceptually-Based Inference: Commentary on "Fifteen-month-old infants attend to shape over other perceptual properties in an induction task," by S. Graham and G. Diesendruck, and "Form follows function: Learning about function helps children learn about shape," by E. Ware & A. Booth

Larissa K Samuelson  1 , Sammy Perone
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Rethinking Conceptually-Based Inference: Commentary on "Fifteen-month-old infants attend to shape over other perceptual properties in an induction task," by S. Graham and G. Diesendruck, and "Form follows function: Learning about function helps children learn about shape," by E. Ware & A. Booth

Larissa K Samuelson et al. Cogn Dev. 2010 Apr.
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Figure 1
Logic of inductive inference task (panels A & B). Possible represented links between the exemplar object, demonstrated action and nonobvious property (panel C) and test object, action and nonobvious property (panel D) of Graham and Diesendruck (2010). Summary of data from tests of represented links in Perone et al., (2008) (panel E) and hypothesis of basis for biased attention to shape in Graham and Diesendruck (this issue) and Ware and Booth (this issue) (panel F).
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