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. 1998 Jun;69(3):604-6.

Physical play and cognitive development: integrating activity, cognition, and education

D F Bjorklund  1 , R D Brown
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  • PMID: 9680673
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Physical play and cognitive development: integrating activity, cognition, and education

D F Bjorklund et al. Child Dev. 1998 Jun.

Abstract

We propose that humans may have evolved a special sensitivity to certain types of social information during rough-and-tumble play that facilitates social cognition. The cognitive benefits of physical play are described as providing a break from demanding intellectual tasks, and are hypothesized to be related to gender differences in spatial cognition.

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