Navigation as a source of geometric knowledge: Young children's use of length, angle, distance, and direction in a reorientation task

Cognition

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 144-161

  Lee, Sang Ah ^a,b   Sovrano, Valeria A ^a   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometry; Reorientation; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISORIENTATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862790146     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.12.015     Document Type: Article

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