Zooming in on spatial scaling: Preschool children and adults use mental transformations to scale spaces

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1614-1619

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

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Mental transformation; Spatial cognition; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899812002     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035905     Document Type: Article

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