Core foundations of abstract geometry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 14191-14195

  Dillon, Moira R ^a   Huang, Yi ^b   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Map reading; Mathematical cognition; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FORM ANALYSIS; ADULT; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84883311725     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312640110     Document Type: Article

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