A change in viewpoint promotes use of height-in-picture as a depth cue in 5- to 7-year-olds' drawings of a simple depth relationship

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 180-192

  Bremner, J Gavin ^a   Andreasen, Gillian ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL FIELD;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031202879     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1997.2371     Document Type: Article

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