ArticleChild development2018
The Early Construction of Spatial Attention: Culture, Space, and Gesture in Parent-Child Interactions.
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- Spatial representation of serial order in working memory: a cross-cultural comparison between Japanese and Italian adults.Psychological research · 2026Article
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- Abstract concepts: external influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues.Psychological research · 2022Review
- Electrophysiological Evidence of Space-Number Associations in 9-Month-Old Infants.Child development · 2021Article
- Eye Tracking Lateralized Spatial Associations in Early Childhood.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2021Article
- Horizontal Spatial Metaphor Representation of Social Status in Chinese Culture.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Unstable world: Recent experience affects spatial perception.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Article
- Infants' Learning of Rule-Based Visual Sequences Predicts Language Outcome at 2 Years.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Spatial-numerical associations in first-graders: evidence from a manual-pointing task.Psychological research · 2019Article
- Explaining the SPoARC and SNARC effects with knowledge structures: An expertise account.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Review
- On the genesis of spatial-numerical associations: Evolutionary and cultural factors co-construct the mental number line.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2018Review
- Observation of directional storybook reading influences young children's counting direction.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2018Article
- From Innate Spatial Biases to Enculturated Spatial Cognition: The Case of Spatial Associations in Number and Other Sequences.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Number prompts left-to-right spatial mapping in toddlerhood.Developmental psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
American and Israeli toddler-caregiver dyads (mean age of toddler = 26 months) were presented with naturalistic tasks in which they must watch a short video (N = 97) or concoct a visual story together (N = 66). English-speaking American caregivers were more likely to use left to right spatial structuring than right to left, especially for well-ordered letters and numbers. Hebrew-speaking Israeli parents were more likely than Americans to use right to left spatial structuring, especially for letters. When constructing a pictorial narrative for their children, Americans were more likely to place pictures from left to right than Israelis. These spatial structure biases exhibited by caregivers are a potential route for the development of spatial biases in early childhood, before children have developed automatic reading and writing habits.
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