Sometimes losing your self in space: Children's and adults' spontaneous use of multiple spatial reference frames

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-191

  Surtees, Andrew D R ^a   Noordzij, Matthijs L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Perspective taking; Spatial cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860824012     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025863     Document Type: Article

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