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Sartori, Mariana; Peralta, Olga – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Young children increasingly interact with technological devices, either as a form of entertainment or for educational purposes. This research sought to investigate the early symbolic understanding of an interactive, three-dimensional digital image presented on a tablet. Two studies were designed in which the children had to use the image as a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts, Depth Perception
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Bambha, Valerie P.; Beckner, Aaron G.; Shetty, Nikita; Voss, Annika T.; Xie, Jinlin; Yiu, Eunice; LoBue, Vanessa; Oakes, Lisa M.; Casasola, Marianella – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Spatial play in early childhood is associated with a variety of spatial and cognitive skills. However, these associations are often derived from studies in which different tasks are used across different age ranges, leaving open the question of how children's natural behaviors during spatial play develop from infancy into the early preschool…
Descriptors: Child Development, Object Manipulation, Psychomotor Skills, Problem Solving
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Shuwairi, Sarah M.; Tran, Annie; Belardo, John; Murphy, Gregory L. – Infant and Child Development, 2020
Prior work showed that infants look longer at impossible figures than possible ones, although it is unclear whether they or older children understand "impossibility." We employed a series of matching and sorting tasks with pictures and objects to evaluate children's knowledge of this dimension. In Experiment 1, nearly all children…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Error Patterns
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Pradana, Lingga Nico; Sa'dijah, Cholis; Sulandra, I. Made; Sudirman; Sholikhah, Octarina Hidayatus – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The purposes of the current study were to develop students' spatial orientation skills using Virtual Mathematics Kits (VMK) and to evaluate VMK as a form of digital media in terms of spatial orientation. This study involved 42 lower-class and 47 higher-class elementary school students as the intervention group and 36 lower-class and 41…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Spatial Ability
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Erden Ozcan, Sule; Bal, Ayten Pinar – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
The purpose of this study is to analyse geometric transformations of children in the early childhood period. The study utilised a case study to design one of the qualitative research methods. Interviews were conducted with 6-, 7- and 8-year-old children, in total 24 children, who were enrolled in a private pre-school and a primary school of the…
Descriptors: Transformations (Mathematics), Young Children, Preschools, Elementary Schools
Korkmaz, Halil Ibrahim – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate kindergartners' geometric (shape, area and symmetry) and spatial (spatial orientation and spatial visualization) thinking skills, in the context of gender and age. Whether kindergartners' geometric and spatial thinking skills vary by their age or gender was questioned. A total of 73 kindergartners (40…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Spatial Ability, Geometry, Thinking Skills
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Simmering, Vanessa R.; Wood, Chelsey M. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Working memory is a basic cognitive process that predicts higher-level skills. A central question in theories of working memory development is the generality of the mechanisms proposed to explain improvements in performance. Prior theories have been closely tied to particular tasks and/or age groups, limiting their generalizability. The cognitive…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Young Children, Visual Perception, Statistical Analysis
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Lim, Kah Heng Alexander; Loo, Zhou Yaw; Goldie, Stephen J.; Adams, Justin W.; McMenamin, Paul G. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is an emerging technology capable of readily producing accurate anatomical models, however, evidence for the use of 3D prints in medical education remains limited. A study was performed to assess their effectiveness against cadaveric materials for learning external cardiac anatomy. A double blind randomized…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Anatomy, Teaching Methods, Human Body
Moore, Randi Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2018
How are linguistic and cognitive practices shared among individuals (and more broadly) populations and cultures? Further, how are cognitive strategies shared at the local level? Li and colleagues (Li & Gleitman 2002; Li et al 2011; "inter alia") suggest that the variation observed in reference frame practices among populations of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Linguistic Theory, Spatial Ability, Preferences
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Wronski, Caroline; Daum, Moritz M. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Movement perception facilitates spatial orienting of attention in infants (Farroni, Johnson, Brockbank, & Simion, 2000). In a series of 4 experiments, we investigated how orienting of attention in infancy is modulated by dynamic stimuli. Experiment 1 (N = 36) demonstrated that 5-month-olds as well as 7-month-olds orient to the direction of a…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Infants, Cues, Attention
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Hawes, Zachary; LeFevre, Jo-Anne; Xu, Chang; Bruce, Catherine D. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2015
There is an emerging consensus that spatial thinking is fundamental to later success in math and science. The goals of this study were to design and evaluate a novel test of three-dimensional (3D) mental rotation for 4- to 8-year-old children (N?=?165) that uses tangible 3D objects. Results revealed that the measure was both valid and reliable and…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Children
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Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia; Neuburger, Sarah; Heil, Martin; Jansen, Petra; Schmelter, Andrea – International Journal of Testing, 2014
This article presents a reanalysis of the data of 862 second and fourth graders collected in two previous studies, focusing on the influence of method (psychometric vs. chronometric) and stimulus type on the gender difference in mental-rotation accuracy. The children had to solve mental-rotation tasks with animal pictures, letters, or cube…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Accuracy, Age Differences
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Gibson, Brett M.; Leichtman, Michelle D.; Costa, Rachel; Bemis, Rhyannon – Learning and Motivation, 2009
Four- to 10-year-old children (n = 50) participated in a 2D search task that included geometry (with- and without lines) and feature conditions. During each of 27 trials, participants watched as a cartoon character hid behind one of three landmarks arranged in a triangle on a computer screen. During feature condition trials, participants could use…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Geometric Concepts, Cognitive Development, Young Children
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Paik, Jae H.; Mix, Kelly S. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Using a sticker search task, Gentner and Rattermann ("Perspectives on thought and language: Interrelations in development" (Gelman & Byrnes, Eds.), pp. 225-227, 1991) found that the ability to ignore surface features and match objects in terms of relative size emerged around 5 years of age. However, because spatial position covaried with relative…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Cognitive Development, Age Differences, Child Development
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Recker, Kara M.; Plumert, Jodie M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008
We conducted three experiments to investigate how opportunities to view objects together in time influence memory for location. Children and adults learned the locations of 20 objects marked by dots on the floor of an open, square box. During learning, participants viewed the objects either simultaneously or in isolation. At test, participants…
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Children, Adults
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