Getting the big picture: Development of spatial scaling abilities

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 270-282

  Frick, Andrea ^a,b   Newcombe, Nora S ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Map use; Spatial cognition; Spatial representation; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863828339     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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