Judging the Size of a Distant Object: Strategy Use by Children and Adults

Visual Experience: Sensation, Cognition, and Constancy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Granrud, Carl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental changes; Motivation; Reasoning abilities; Size estimation; Size estimation strategies; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865130054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199597277.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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