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    "pk": 26351,
    "title": "General Mechanisms Underlying Language and Spatial Cognitive Development",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Previous research showed that children’s spatial language\nproduction predicts their spatial skills, but the mechanisms\nunderlying this relation remain a source of debate. This study\nexamined whether 4-year-olds’ spatial skills were predicted by\ntheir attention to task-relevant information—in tasks that\nemphasize either memory or language—above and beyond\ntheir spatial word production. Children completed three types\nof tasks: (1) a memory task assessing attention to task-relevant\ncolor, size, and location cues; (2) a production task assessing\nadaptive use of language to describe scenes, varying in color,\nsize, and location; and (3) spatial tasks. After controlling for\nage, gender, and vocabulary, children’s spatial skills were\nsignificantly predicted by their memory for task-relevant cues,\nabove and beyond their task-related language production and\nadaptive use of language. These findings suggest that attending\nto relevant information is a process supporting spatial skill\nacquisition and underlies the relation between language and\nspatial cognition.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "spatial cognition; short-term memory; language\nproduction; cognitive development"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5s7380dz",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Hilary",
            "middle_name": "E.",
            "last_name": "Miller",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Vanessa",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Simmering",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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    ]
}