Regular ArticleToddlers' Use of Metric Information and Landmarks to Reorient☆
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This research was originally the basis for a Ph.D. dissertation by the first author, with the second author as advisor. We thank the core committee members, Tim Shipley and Bill Overton, for their continuing comments on the research and the readers of the dissertation, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Bob Weisberg, and Marsha Weinraub, for their input. We also thank Camille Rocroi for help in working with children and the parents and children for participating. The research was supported by NSF Grants SBE 9631680 and 9905098. Portions of these studies were presented at the Psychonomics Society (Dallas, TX, November 1998) and at APA (August 1999).
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