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Handbook of Spatial Cognition
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Waller, David, Ed.; Nadel, Lynn, Ed. – APA Books, 2012
Spatial cognition is a branch of cognitive psychology that studies how people acquire and use knowledge about their environment to determine where they are, how to obtain resources, and how to find their way home. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including neuroscience, cognition, and sociology, have discovered a great deal about how…
Descriptors: Memory, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Psychology, Maps
How Do Young Children Determine Location? Evidence from Disorientation Tasks
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Lourenco, Stella F.; Huttenlocher, Janellen – Cognition, 2006
Previous studies show that following disorientation children use the geometry of an enclosed space to locate an object hidden in one of the corners [e.g. (Harmer, L., & Spelke, E. (1996). Modularity and development: A case of spatial reorientation. "Cognition, 61," 195-232)]. These studies have used a disorientation procedure that involves…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Motion
Perception of Object Unity in Young Infants: The Roles of Motion, Depth, and Orientation.
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Johnson, Scott P.; Aslin, Richard N. – Cognitive Development, 1996
Two experiments examined the effects of common motion, background texture, and orientation on four-month olds' perception of unity of a partially occluded rod. Results indicated that infants' perception of object unity is not dependent on a single visual cue but on a variety of cues including motion, interposition, depth cues, background texture,…
Descriptors: Depth Perception, Infants, Motion, Object Permanence
Kinetic Contours in Infants' Visual Perception.
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Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ruth; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines 3-month-old infants' perception of "camouflaged" forms that were only visible when moving. Shows infants effectively use kinetic information to organize visual input in higher-order structures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Habituation, Infants, Kinesthetic Perception, Motion
Where Infants Look Determines How They See: Eye Movements and Object Perception Performance in 3-Month-Olds
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Johnson, Scott P.; Slemmer, Jonathan A.; Amso, Dima – Infancy, 2004
A fundamental question of perceptual development concerns how infants come to perceive partly hidden objects as unified across a spatial gap imposed by an occluder. Much is known about the time course of development of perceptual completion during the first several months after birth, as well as some of the visual information that supports unity…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Eye Movements, Infants, Human Body
Processes Underlying Young Children's Spatial Orientation during Movement.
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Bremner, J. Gavin; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Tested children 18 months to 4 years for their ability to relocate a hidden object after self-produced movement around an array of 4 locations. Children encountered no specific difficulty in coordinating dimensions, or they solved the task without recourse to such a system. They also appeared to change strategy when the problem requires more…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Motion, Orientation
Music and Spatial Task Performance: A Causal Relationship.
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Rauscher, Frances H.; And Others – 1994
This research paper reports on testing the hypothesis that music and spatial task performance are causally related. Two complementary studies are presented that replicate and explore previous findings. One study of college students showed that listening to a Mozart sonata induces subsequent short-term spatial reasoning facilitation and tested the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Fine Arts