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    "pk": 30143,
    "title": "Schoolchildren’s Spatial Reasoning",
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    "abstract": "We examine schoolchildren’s reasoning with spatial relations,\nsuch as ‘is to the left of’. Our aims are to obtain a more precise\naccount of the effect of working memory on reasoning, a more\ndetailed understanding of the internal representation of mental\nmodels and a developmental perspective. We discuss two\nexperiments in which 348 children, between eight and twelve\nyears old, needed to verify conclusions for 24 reasoning\nproblems describing the spatial relations between pieces of\nclothing. In both experiments, children in the experimental\ncondition were allowed to take notes by means of paper and\npencil. In both experiments we find that the participants\nspontaneously draw iconic representations of the items’ spatial\nordering, have a strong preference for only considering one\npossible state of affairs even when more are relevant, and that\nan explanation in terms of working memory capacity alone\ncannot fully explain the data.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "spatial reasoning; mental models; working\nmemory; developmental psychology"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tb4v00v",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kevin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Demiddele",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "KU Leuven",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tom",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Heyman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "KU Leuven",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Walter",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schaeken",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "KU Leuven",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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