ArticleDevelopmental psychology2017
Number prompts left-to-right spatial mapping in toddlerhood.
Article in Developmental psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Ordinality and Verbal Framing Influence Preschoolers' Memory for Spatial Structure.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2023Article
- More linear than log? Non-symbolic number-line estimation in 3- to 5-year-old children.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Eye Tracking Lateralized Spatial Associations in Early Childhood.Journal of cognition and development : official journal of the Cognitive Development Society · 2021Article
- 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
- Spatial Presentations, but Not Response Formats Influence Spatial-Numerical Associations in Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Toddlers performed a spatial mapping task in which they were required to learn the location of a hidden object in a vertical array and then transpose this location information 90° to a horizontal array. During the vertical training, they were given (a) no labels, (b) alphabetical labels, or (c) numerical labels for each potential spatial location. After the array was transposed to become a horizontal continuum, the children who were provided with numerical labels during training and those who heard alphabetical labels and formed a strong memory for the vertical location, selectively chose the location corresponding to a left-to-right mapping bias. Children who received no concurrent ordinal labels during training were not able to transpose the array, and did not exhibit any spatial directionality bias after transposition. These results indicate that children exhibit more flexible spatial mapping than other animals, and this mapping is modulated depending on the type of concurrent ordinal information the child receives. (PsycINFO Database Record
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