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Peer reviewedBjorklund, David F.; Brown, Rhonda Douglas – Child Development, 1998
Proposes that humans may have evolved a special sensitivity to certain types of social information during rough-and-tumble play that facilitates social cognition. Describes the cognitive benefits of physical play as providing a break from demanding intellectual tasks and hypothesizes that physical play is related to gender differences in spatial…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Evolution, Learning Activities
