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Tillman, Katharine A.; Tulagan, Nestor; Fukuda, Eren; Barner, David – Developmental Science, 2018
When reasoning about time, English-speaking adults often invoke a "mental timeline" stretching from left to right. Although the direction of the timeline varies across cultures, the tendency to represent time as a line has been argued to be ubiquitous and primitive. On this hypothesis, we might predict that children also spontaneously…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Time, Schemata (Cognition)
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Booth, James R.; Cho, Soojin; Burman, Douglas D.; Bitan, Tali – Developmental Science, 2007
Age-related differences (9- to 15-year-olds) in the neural correlates of mapping from phonology to orthography were examined with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants were asked to determine if two spoken words had the same spelling for the rime (corresponding letters after the first consonant or consonant cluster). Some of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reaction Time, Music, Phonemes
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Uttal, David H.; Fisher, Joan A.; Taylor, Holly A. – Developmental Science, 2006
People acquire spatial information from many sources, including maps, verbal descriptions, and navigating in the environment. The different sources present spatial information in different ways. For example, maps can show many spatial relations simultaneously, but in a description, each spatial relation must be presented sequentially. The present…
Descriptors: Maps, Concept Formation, Cognitive Mapping, Spatial Ability