How to speed up to be in time: Action-judgment dissociations in children and adults

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-29

  Wilkening, Friedrich ^a   Martin, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Averaging rules; Intuitive physics; Knowledge dissociation; Speed concept; Time concept

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142829646     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.63.1.17     Document Type: Article

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