Locomotion improves children's spatial search: A meta-analytic review

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-82

  Yan, Jin H ^a   Thomas, Jerry R ^b   Downing, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Box 19259 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032133128     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.1.67     Document Type: Article

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