The development of spatial location coding: Place learning and dead reckoning in the second and third years

Cognitive Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-200

  Newcombe, Nora ^a   Huttenlocher, Janellen ^b   Drummey, Anna Bullock ^b   Wiley, Judith G ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0001588762     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2014(98)90038-7     Document Type: Article

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