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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Published in:	Child development Vol. 71; no. 5; pp. 1179 - 1190
Main Authors:	Lew, Adina R., Bremner, J. Gavin, Lefkovitch, Leonard P.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishers Inc 01.09.2000 Blackwell Publishers Blackwell University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects:	Age Differences Age Factors Age groups Allocentrism Analysis of Variance Attention Babies Beacons Biobehavioral Development, Perception, and Action Biological and medical sciences Child Development Cognition Comparative Analysis Cues Developmental psychology Experimentation Eyes & eyesight Female Follow-Up Studies Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Infancy Infant Infants Landmarks Lanterns Locomotion Male Newborn. Infant Performance Factors Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychology. Psychophysiology Relational Learning Relational Understanding Rotation Signal Detection, Psychological Space Perception Spatial Ability Training Visual Perception Human Psychomotor development Visual cue Body movement Spatial orientation Spatial ability Infant
ISSN:	0009-3920, 1467-8624
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