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Children's large‐scale spatial cognition: Is the measure the message?
Author(s) -
Liben Lynn S.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219821507
Subject(s) - cognition , spatial cognition , affect (linguistics) , sketch , scale (ratio) , psychology , spatial ability , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , computer science , cartography , geography , communication , algorithm , neuroscience
Children's difficulties in drawing accurate sketch maps led earlier researchers to conclude that young children were spatially incompetent. More recently, investigators have devised new large‐scale spatial tasks on which children perform well. How do our tasks affect our conclusions about children's spatial cognition?.