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Peer reviewedMervis, Carolyn B.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1993
Comments on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Describes a program of research that demonstrates the important influence of perception on the structure of concepts. Proposes that both perceptual and nonperceptual information are important to conceptual structure throughout the continuum of knowledge acquisition and that perception is a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
