Animal magnetism: Evidence for an attraction account of closing-in behaviour in pre-school children

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 278-284

  Ambron, Elisabetta ^a,b   Della Sala, Sergio ^a   McIntosh, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Closing in behaviour; Constructional apraxia; Copying; Drawing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRAWING; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 58749112301     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.08.023     Document Type: Article

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