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Schutte, Anne R.; Spencer, John P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
This study tested a dynamic field theory (DFT) of spatial working memory and an associated spatial precision hypothesis (SPH). Between 3 and 6 years of age, there is a qualitative shift in how children use reference axes to remember locations: 3-year-olds' spatial recall responses are biased toward reference axes after short memory delays, whereas…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Young Children, Cognitive Development
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Ashenfelter, Kathleen T.; Boker, Steven M.; Waddell, Jennifer R.; Vitanov, Nikolay – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
This study examined the influence of sex, social dominance, and context on motion-tracked head movements during dyadic conversations. Windowed cross-correlation analyses found high peak correlation between conversants' head movements over short ([approximately equal to]2-s) intervals and a high degree of nonstationarity. Nonstationarity in head…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Time Perspective, Geometry, Nonverbal Communication
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Mou, Weimin; Liu, Xianyun; McNamara, Timothy P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Two experiments investigated whether the spatial reference directions that are used to specify objects' locations in memory can be solely determined by layout geometry. Participants studied a layout of objects from a single viewpoint while their eye movements were recorded. Subsequently, participants used memory to make judgments of relative…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Memory, Human Body, Geometry