Language, space, and the development of cognitive flexibility in humans: The case of two spatial memory tasks

Cognition

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 263-299

  Hermer Vazquez, Linda ^a,b   Moffet, Anne ^a   Munkholm, Paul ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Humans; Language; Space; Spatial memory tasks

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0035142597     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(00)00120-7     Document Type: Article

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