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Plasticity of Human Spatial Cognition: Spatial Language and Cognition Covary across Cultures
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Haun, Daniel B. M.; Rapold, Christian J.; Janzen, Gabriele; Levinson, Stephen C. – Cognition, 2011
The present paper explores cross-cultural variation in spatial cognition by comparing spatial reconstruction tasks by Dutch and Namibian elementary school children. These two communities differ in the way they predominantly express spatial relations in language. Four experiments investigate cognitive strategy preferences across different levels of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Usage, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences