ArticlePloS one2018
Object exploration facilitates 4-month-olds' mental rotation performance.
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- Minding the gap: a sex difference in young infants' mental rotation through thirty degrees of arc.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A Novel Approach to Assessing Infant and Child Mental Rotation.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- A Pre-registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context.Child development · 2022Article
- Congenitally blind adults can learn to identify face-shapes via auditory sensory substitution and successfully generalize some of the learned features.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Maternal attitudes and behaviours differentially shape infant early life experience: A cross cultural study.PloS one · 2022Article
- The sticky mittens paradigm: A critical appraisal of current results and explanations.Developmental science · 2021Review
- Sensorimotor Self-organization via Circular-Reactions.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2021Article
- Play enhances visual form perception in infancy-an active training study.Developmental science · 2020Article
- Spatial Thinking in Infancy: Origins and Development of Mental Rotation Between 3 and 10 Months of Age.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2020Review
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Abstract
How do infants learn to mentally rotate objects, to imagine them rotating through different viewpoints? One possibility is that development of infants' mental rotation (MR) is facilitated by visual and manual experience with complex objects. To evaluate this possibility, eighty 4-month-olds (40 females, 40 males) participated in an object exploration task with Velcro "sticky mittens" that allow infants too young to grasp objects themselves to nonetheless explore those objects manually as well as visually. These eighty infants also participated in a visual habituation task designed to test MR. Half the infants (Mittens First group) explored the object prior to the MR task, and the other half afterwards (Mittens Second group), to examine the role of immediate prior object experience on MR performance. We compared performance of male and female infants, but found little evidence for sex differences. However, we found an important effect of object exploration: The infants in the Mittens First group who exhibited the highest levels of spontaneous object engagement showed the strongest evidence of MR, but there were no consistent correlations between these measures for infants in the Mittens Second group. These findings suggest an important contribution from object experience to development of MR.
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