Angles and Distances: Children's and Adults' Reconstruction and Scaling of Spatial Configurations

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2763-2779

  Uttal, David H ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030347745     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01887.x     Document Type: Article

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