The relationship between spatial abilities and representations of large-scale space in children - A structural equation modeling analysis

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-107

  Quaiser Pohl, Claudia ^a   Lehmann, Wolfgang ^a   Eid, Michael ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive maps; Environmental cognition; Large scale space; Mental rotation; Sketch maps; Small scale space; Spatial abilities; Spatial representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344873715     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00071-0     Document Type: Article

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