Early development of scaling ability

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 682-690

  Vasilyeva, Marina ^a   Huttenlocher, Janellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

APTITUDE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAPS; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 4444236384     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.5.682     Document Type: Article

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