Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input
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Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: evidence from children who lack language input.
Does spatial language influence how people think about space? To address this question, we observed children who did not know a conventional language, and tested their performance on nonlinguistic spatial tasks. We studied deaf children living in Istanbul whose hearing losses prevented them from acquiring speech and whose hearing parents had not exposed them to sign. Lacking a conventional lang...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.01.003