Advanced Spatial Skills and Advance Planning: Components of 6-Year-Olds' Navigational Map Use

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-70

  Sandberg, Elisabeth Hollister ^a,b   Huttenlocher, Janellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0037733769     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327647JCD0201_3     Document Type: Article

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