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Elwinger, Elyda S. – Academic Therapy, 1983
The author discusses the role of educational "crutches" that help elementary learning disabled children in tasks involving spatial orientation, visual perception, and auditory short-term memory. Teachers are cautioned to observe how children act in different situations and to allow them whatever "crutches" are effective. (CL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Memory

Rieser, John J.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Six experiments assessed young children's spatial orientation relative to their imagined surroundings. The experiments found that children as young as 3.5 years were able, like adults, to accurately walk along a path that replicated the route between their seat and the teacher's desk in their preschool classroom. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Imagination

Lazzaro, Peter; Cook, Harold – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates effects of perceptual salience and specific orientation values on 16 kindergarten and fourth-grade children executing a speeded sorting task. Kindergarten results supported the cognitive processing prediction that orientation sorting times would vary as a function of condition, but no differences were obtained for the fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Liben, Lynn S.; Downs, Roger M. – Developmental Psychology, 1993
A total of 259 children between 5 and 12 years of age plotted the location and heading of an adult who was standing in their classroom onto a map of the classroom. Older children performed better than younger ones; boys performed better than girls. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Herman, James F.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Second and third graders and fifth and sixth graders were tested in a very large, unfamiliar environment to determine the relation of their knowledge of an abstract reference frame to performance on a spatial inference task. (HOD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development

Rosser, Rosemary – Child Study Journal, 1994
Spatial cognition entails the ability to mentally represent spatial relations and to anticipate the course and outcome of transformations applied to those relations. The developmental histories of four tasks used to assess the maturity of spatial cognition in children are described. Significant effects were found for age, gender, task, and for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Ability, Concept Formation

Geva, Esther; Cohen, Rina – Instructional Science, 1987
Examines spatial concepts required by young children for the understanding and manipulation of turn commands in Logo, and reviews the literature on children's Logo learning and the psychological-cognitive development of spatial concepts. Geometric concepts, alternative frames of reference, and the use of Turtle graphics are also discussed. (39…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Geometric Concepts

Huttenlocher, Janellen; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1994
Six experiments involving 262 children (as young as 16 months and as old as fifth grade) indicate that the basic framework for coding location is present early in life and that later development consists of an increasing ability to impose organization on a broad range of bounded spaces. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Coding, Cognitive Processes
Beals, Mark G. – 1981
The main thrust of American education has been cognitively oriented. Recent research on the human brain suggests that such orientation is a general function of only one hemisphere of the brain, the left. Because of the close relationships among speech, language, thinking, reasoning, and the higher mental functions, the left brain hemisphere…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking
Herman, James F.; Siegel, Alexander W. – 1977
This experiment investigated the effect of children's successive encounters with a large scale environment on their subsequent reconstructions of that environment. Twenty children (10 boys, 10 girls) at each of three grade levels (kindergarten, two, and five) reconstructed from memory the spatial layout of buildings in a large model town. All…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education

Wheatley, Grayson H., Ed. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1991
Because the absence of spatial activities in contemporary textbooks seemingly relegates visual imagery to a nonessential status, this discussion highlights the indispensable role of visual imagery within applied school mathematics learning activities. Included are examples of when imagery is used within students' daily applications and suggestions…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities, Mathematics Education
McIsaac, Marina Stock – 1981
Recognizing that photography in the classroom is highly motivating in that it offers a unique vehicle for communicating ideas visually, this study was designed to isolate variables which can be both observed and evaluated in photographs and for which instruction can be designed. Relationships among the technical and aesthetic qualities in…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Analysis of Variance, Elementary Education, Factor Analysis

Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Tests seven- , 10- , and 13-year-olds for developmental differences in processes and strategies involved in geometric matrix solution and the relationship between strategy differences and item complexity. (AS)
Descriptors: Analogy, Developmental Stages, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Carswell, Ronald J. B.; And Others – 1982
Three-dimensional (3-D) aerial photographs viewed with cardboard filter glasses (anaglyphs) aid elementary and junior high school students in recognizing physical features, offer a realistic vertical perspective, and have motivational values. A review of research on cognition, perception, and the use of anaglyphs reveals that pictures are an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Geographic Concepts

Battle, James; Labercane, George – Reading Horizons, 1985
Examines the relationship of achievement in reading, spelling, and arithmetic with a variety of other measures, including tests of visual memory and visual-motor association. Concludes that visual association is more closely related to achievement in reading, arithmetic, and spelling than is visual memory. (HOD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Mathematics Skills
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