The influence of pattern type on children's block design performance

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 392-402

  Akshoomoff, Natacha A ^a,b   Stiles, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Spatial analysis; Visuospatial processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0030224960     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617700001466     Document Type: Article

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