Writing Chinese characters and success on mental rotation test

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 88, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1261-1270

  Li, Chieh ^a   Nuttall, Ronald L ^b   Zhu, Wenbin ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE TESTS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MULTILINGUALISM; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WRITING;

EID: 0033146218     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1999.88.3c.1261     Document Type: Article

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