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ArticleJournal of experimental child psychology2022

Examining the role of external language support and children's own language use in spatial development.

Hilary E Miller-Goldwater, Vanessa R Simmering

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Article in Journal of experimental child psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hilary E Miller-GoldwaterDepartment of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Department of Psychology, McPherson Eye Research Institute and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA. Electronic address: hilary.e.miller@emory.edu.
Vanessa R SimmeringDepartment of Psychology, McPherson Eye Research Institute and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA; Doctrina Consulting, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · USWiCell · US

Funding

WISCONSIN CENTER ON MENTAL RETARDATION: CORE SUPPORTP30HD003352 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MESSING, ALBEE · 1985 to 2015
$25.2M
Understanding Visual Memory Capacity using Neural Field Modeling over DevelopmentR03HD067481 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SIMMERING, VANESSA · 2011 to 2012
$149k
NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD003352NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD067481
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This research investigated whether an experimental manipulation providing children with external language support reflects developmental processes whereby children come to use language within spatial tasks. A total of 121 3- to 6-year-old children participated in language production and spatial recall tasks. The Production task measured children's task-relevant descriptions of spatial relations on the testing array. The Recall task assessed children's delayed search for hidden object locations on the testing array relative to one or more spatial reference frames (egocentric, room-centered, and intrinsic). During the Recall task, the experimenter provided children with either descriptive or nondescriptive verbal cues. Results showed that children's task-relevant language production improved with age and the effects of language support on spatial performance decreased with age. However, children's production of task-relevant language did not account for effects of language support. Instead, children benefited from language support irrespective of their task-relevant language production. These results suggest that verbal encoding is not a spontaneous process that young children use in support of their spatial performance. In addition, experimental manipulations of language support are not fully reflective of the ways in which children come to use language within spatial tasks.

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LanguageLanguage DevelopmentChildChild, PreschoolCuesHumansMental RecallChild developmentLanguage productionReference frame selectionSpatial cognitionSpatial wordsVerbal encoding

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