Young Children's Self-Directed Information Gathering on Touchscreens

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1835-1840

  Partridge, Eric ^a   McGovern, Matthew G ^b   Yung, Amanda ^a   Kidd, Celeste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive development; developmental experimentation; Learning

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONDITION; DEVELOPMENTAL EXPERIMENTATION; DIRECTED INFORMATION; INFORMATION GATHERING; INFORMATION RETENTION; LEARNING; SELF-DIRECTED; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; YOUNG CHILDREN;

EID: 85097435265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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