Coding Location: The View From Toddler Studies

American Psychologist

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 641-648

  Huttenlocher, Janellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

egocentric versus allocentric representation; spatial memory; spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECALL;

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 56849106563     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.63.8.641     Document Type: Article

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