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    "pk": 27997,
    "title": "Children’s Representations of Five Spatial Terms",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This study is an exploratory analysis of young children’s\nrepresentation of five spatial terms: above, under, by, next to,\nand between. Children (n = 76) and adults (n = 11) indicated\nthe spatial extent of a grid they thought each term indicated.\nQualitative analyses were used to categorize responses,\nseparately for each word, and showed more agreement among\nadults than children. Furthermore, children who showed adult-\nlike representations were generally older than those who\nshowed unsystematic responses. Quantitative analyses, using a\nmedian split in age to create two groups of children, compared\nrepresentational sizes and distances from the referent(s). For\nabove, under, and between, adults had larger representations\nthan children; the trend was reversed but not significant for by\nand next to. Furthermore, representation size was correlated for\nabove and under, but not for by and next to. Analyses of\ndistances showed a predicted reversal in the vertical dimension\nof above and under that interacted with age. There were no\ndifferences across age groups or terms for by and next to, but\nbetween showed a decrease in horizontal distance over\ndevelopment. These results suggest that children may initially\nunderstand words differently than adults do.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "spatial language; cognitive development;\nrepresentation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qg025t5",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jennifer",
            "middle_name": "M",
            "last_name": "Weber",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Colorado Boulder",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Hilary",
            "middle_name": "E",
            "last_name": "Miller",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin - Bloomington",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Lu",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ou",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "ACT Inc",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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