Using Manual Rotation and Gesture to Improve Mental Rotation in Preschoolers

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 459-464

  Ping, Raedy ^a   Ratliff, Kristin ^a   Hickey, Elizabeth ^a   Levine, Susan C ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

embodied cognition; gesture; mental rotation; preschoolers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCREENS; EMBODIED COGNITION; GESTURE; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MENTAL ROTATION; PRESCHOOLER; ROTATING OBJECTS;

ROTATION;

EID: 85083051958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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