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Peer reviewedJones, Susan S.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Reviews current research on children's concepts and categories that reflects a growing consensus that nonperceptual knowledge is central to concepts and determines category membership, whereas perceptual knowledge is peripheral in concepts and only a rough guide to category membership. Argues that there is no compelling basis in theory or in data…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
