The Development of Relational Landmark Use in Six- to Twelve-Month-Old Infants in a Spatial Orientation Task

The ability to use the relations between visible landmarks to locate nonvisible goals (allocentric spatial coding) underlies success on a variety of everyday spatial orientation problems. Little is known about the development of true relational coding in infancy. Ninety-six 6-, 8.5- and 12-month-old...

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Vydáno v:Child development Ročník 71; číslo 5; s. 1179 - 1190
Hlavní autoři: Lew, Adina R., Bremner, J. Gavin, Lefkovitch, Leonard P.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishers Inc 01.09.2000
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ISSN:0009-3920, 1467-8624
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Shrnutí:The ability to use the relations between visible landmarks to locate nonvisible goals (allocentric spatial coding) underlies success on a variety of everyday spatial orientation problems. Little is known about the development of true relational coding in infancy. Ninety-six 6-, 8.5- and 12-month-old infants were observed in a peekaboo paradigm in which they had to turn to a target location after displacement to a novel position and direction of facing. In a landmark condition, the target position was located between two landmarks, contrasted with a control condition in which no distinctive landmarks were provided. Six-month-old infants performed poorly in both conditions, 8.5-month-olds were significantly better with the landmarks, and 12-month-olds solved the task with or without landmarks. A follow-up study confirmed that the 8.5-month-olds used both landmarks to solve the task. This demonstration of allocentric spatial coding in 8.5-month-old infants shows earlier competence than that found in previous work in which only infants at the end of the first year were able to use landmarks relationally.
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ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/1467-8624.00222