Cross-cultural preferences in spatial reasoning

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-21

  Knauff, Markus ^a   Ragni, Marco ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cross cultural similarities; Mongolia; preferred mental models; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958116235     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853711X568662     Document Type: Article

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