Environmental-scale map use in middle childhood: Links to spatial skills, strategies, and gender

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2047-2063

  Liben, Lynn S ^a   Myers, Lauren J ^b   Christensen, Adam E ^c   Bower, Corinne A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAPS AS TOPIC; ORIENTATION; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887356146     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12090     Document Type: Article

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