Toddlers’ use of metric information and landmarks to reorient

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 225-244

  Learmonth, Amy E ^a   Newcombe, Nora S ^b   Huttenlocher, Janellen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Modularity; Spatial memory; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035516065     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2001.2635     Document Type: Article

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