Young children's representations of spatial and functional relations between objects

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1612-1627

  Shutts, Kristin ^a,b   Örnkloo, Helena ^c   Von Hofsten, Claes ^c   Keen, Rachel ^d   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 72449160621     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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