Young children's spatial representations developed through exploration of a desktop virtual reality scene

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 251-262

  Gabrielli, Silvia ^a   Rogers, Yvonne ^b   Scaife, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Educational technologies; External cognition; Spatial abilities; Virtual reality; Young children

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344460756     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012097322806     Document Type: Article

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