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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Summary: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