Achieving a New Dimension: Children Integrate Three Stimulus Dimensions in Volume Estimations

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 877-883

  Ebersbach, Mirjam ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cognitive development; implicit knowledge; information integration; intuitive mathematics; volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUITION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 65649100101     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014616     Document Type: Article

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