Geocentric dead reckoning in Sanskrit- and Hindi-medium school children

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 386-408

  Mishra, Ramesh C ^a   Singh, Sunita ^a   Dasen, Pierre R ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cross cultural human development; Geocentric dead reckoning; Hindu religious practices; Orientation systems; Sanskrit schools; Spatial language and cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349211776     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: 14617056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X09343330     Document Type: Article

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