Infants 9 to 10 months of age were presented with a series of visible displacement hiding trials at two locations. Infants had to choose among three, five, or six alternative locations on each trial. Search attempts tended to cluster around the currently correct location during both trials on all apparati, providing evidence for a memory…

The author points out the problem learning disabled students have with the language of right and left. Reasons for inappropriate classroom interventions are pointed out, and guidelines for program implementation and activities for dealing with this problem are offered. (SW)

This study used a variation of Piaget and Inhelder's water level task and several cognitive complexity measures to test the predictions that cognitive complexity would relate positively to performance of the water level task and that males would perform better. The predictions were confirmed. Correlations for males and females differed.…

The structure of spatial representation in four congenitally and three adventitiously blind 11-year-old children was examined by means of pointing, mapping, drawing, and spatial reasoning on two simple routes over repeated trials. (Author)

Bengali, English, and Hindi-speaking children five to nine years old were asked to place an object in front of or behind objects with or without obvious fronts. All children responded on the basis of an inherent object cue when a fronted object was used. When a nonfronted object was used, all children treated it as a fronted object. (Author/MP)

Examines the effects of dimensionality and salience of frame of reference on children's location of a point in space. Subjects were eight boys and eight girls from each of first, second and third grades. (CM)

Presents some exercises for teaching perspective to high school art students. (SJL)

This study tested whether the first level in processing orientation information results in perceiving whether a shape is upright or nonupright. Theory states that nonupright orientations are not distinguished from each other. As predicted, three- and four-year-olds discriminated upright from nonupright pictures more readily than they discriminated…

The author suggests concepts and activities in spatial awareness and interior design suitable for the elementary grades. (SJL)

The claim by Bandura that the Rorschach space response is an artifact of longer blot exposure is questioned because of failure to account for the relationship between productivity and space response rates. Results of this study indicate that no significant temporal effect operates on space response rate. (Author/BEF)

Second and sixth graders acquired information about a large-scale environment either actively or passively. They were subsequently asked to estimate distances in either active or passive response style. Unlike the older children, second graders did not estimate distances accurately when acquisition and response activities were incongruent.…

Describes an activity for children of any age to develop spatial sense and explore the effects of transforming, combining, subdividing, and changing geometric figures. Students analyze empty cereal boxes opened flat to determine the specific shape, how it opens and closes, to check maps or sketches against the actual geometry of the box, and write…

Effects of display characteristics on bias of estimates of whisker length of 2 types of box-and-whisker plots were studied in 2 studies involving 347 college students. Bias seems to be the product of a three-way interaction between spatial orientation, interquartile spread, and whisker/spread ratio. (SLD)

Four experiments with 88 college students investigated whether variations in orientation that affect the ability to imagine rotations also affect the ability to imagine projective transformations. Results suggest that imagination of projection and rotation involves organization of spatial structures in relation to initially given properties of the…