Quantitative and qualitative change in children's mental rotation performance

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 419-429

  Geiser, Christian ^a   Lehmann, Wolfgang ^b   Corth, Martin ^c   Eid, Michael ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Hoch Begabten Zentrum Brühl   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change; Children; Mental rotation; Sex differences; Solution strategies; Spatial abilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749083403     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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