Children's Understanding of Pictorial and Mental Representations

Child Development

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 321-332

  Slaughter, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REALITY TESTING;

EID: 0032044507     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06191.x     Document Type: Article

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