Infants use rational decision criteria for choosing among models of their input.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Cognition

• Publication date

  2010-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.01.006PMID 20144828PMCID PMC2835817
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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