Lew, Adina and Bremner, J. Gavin and Lefkovitch, L (2000) The development of relational landmark use in 6- to 12-month-old infants in a spatial orientation task. Child Development, 71 (5). pp. 1179-1190. ISSN 0009-3920
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology |
| ID Code: | 18801 |
| Deposited By: | ep_ss_importer |
| Deposited On: | 04 Nov 2008 10:01 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 15:21 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/18801 |
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