Children’s Spontaneous Gestures Reflect Verbal Understanding of the Day/Night Cycle

Understanding the day/night cycle requires integrating observations of the sky (an Earth-based perspective) with scientific models of the solar system (a space-based perspective). Yet children often fail to make the right connections and resort to non-scientific intuitions – for example, the Sun mov...

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Main Authors: Caroline M. Gaudreau, Florencia K. Anggoro, Benjamin D. Jee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01123/full