Plasticity of human spatial cognition: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures

Cognition

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-80

  Haun, Daniel B M ^a,b,c   Rapold, Christian J ^a,d   Janzen, Gabriele ^e,f   Levinson, Stephen C ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross cultural differences; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; NAMIBIA; NETHERLANDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951958145     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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