Sign language and Chinese characters on visual-spatial memory: A literature review

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 97, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 797-802

  Flaherty, Mary ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; REVIEW; SIGN LANGUAGE; VISION;

CHILD; CULTURE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2142709562     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.3.797     Document Type: Article

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