The development of relational landmark use in 6- to 12-month-old infants in a spatial orientation task.

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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Abstract

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:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Child Development
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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?? psychologypediatrics, perinatology, and child healtheducationdevelopmental and educational psychologybf psychology ??
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18801
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Deposited On:
04 Nov 2008 10:01
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Yes
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Published
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