Schooling in western culture promotes context-free processing

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 79-88

  Ventura, Paulo ^a   Pattamadilok, Chotiga ^b,c   Fernandes, Tânia ^a   Klein, Olivier ^c   Morais, José ^c   Kolinsky, Régine ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analytic cognitive orientation; Cognitive orientation; Holistic cognitive orientation; Literacy; Schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649105107     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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