2 Young Children Playing with Balls (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

2 Young Children Playing with Balls

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One- to four-year-olds, who heard and then spoke 45 additional spatial words that described sizes and shapes saw, on average, a 23 percent increase in their scores on a non-verbal assessment of spatial thinking

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