Turning the tables: Language and spatial reasoning

Cognition

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 265-294

  Li, Peggy ^a   Gleitman, Lila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Spatial reasoning; Turning the tables

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SPATIAL PROBLEMS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036211773     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00009-4     Document Type: Article

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