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    "pk": 27749,
    "title": "Constraints and Development in Children's Block Construction",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Block construction tasks are highly complex, yet even young\nchildren engage in these tasks in both informal and formal\nlearning settings. In this paper, we ask whether the specific\npaths through which children build a structure are unique to the\nindividual, or alternatively, constrained by similar principles\nacross individuals and over age. Our results show that although\nchildren between 4 and 8 make frequent errors in copying\nmodel constructions, there is a striking amount of consistency\nin specific attributes of their paths of construction, and this\nconsistency mirrors that of adults. The build paths suggest that\nalthough children sometimes build inefficiently, they tend to\nbuild layer-by-layer, consistent with a role for intuitive physics\nthat enables the creation of stable structures.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Skilled action"
        },
        {
            "word": "Spatial skills"
        },
        {
            "word": "Spatial Cognition"
        },
        {
            "word": "development"
        },
        {
            "word": "Block copying"
        },
        {
            "word": "Intuitive physics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9031f4w2",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Cathryn",
            "middle_name": "S",
            "last_name": "Cortesa",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "John Hopkins University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jonathan",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Jones",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "John Hopkins University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gregory",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Hager",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "John Hopkins University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Amy",
            "middle_name": "Lynne",
            "last_name": "Shelton",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "John Hopkins University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Sanjeev",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Khudanpur",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "John Hopkins University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Barbara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Landau",
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            "institution": "John Hopkins University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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}