Indirect landmark use at 6 months of age in a spatial orientation task

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-90

  Lew, Adina R ^a   Foster, Kirsty A ^a   Crowther, Helen L ^b   Green, Michael ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infancy; Landmarks; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY;

EID: 0742320248     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2003.06.003     Document Type: Article

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