Young children's use of features to reorient is more than just associative: Further evidence against a modular view of spatial processing

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 213-220

  Newcombe, Nora S ^a   Ratliff, Kristin R ^a   Shallcross, Wendy L ^a   Twyman, Alexandra D ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 72249090450     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00877.x     Document Type: Article

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