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The Development of Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Relations
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Bullens, Jessue; Postma, Albert – Cognitive Development, 2008
Two classes of spatial relations can be distinguished in between and within object representations. Kosslyn [Kosslyn, S. M. (1987). "Seeing and imagining in the cerebral hemispheres: A computational approach." "Psychological Review," 94, 148-175] suggested that the right hemisphere (RH) is specialized for processing coordinate (metric) spatial…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Response Style (Tests), Spatial Ability
What Do Young Children Know about Objects?
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Gauvain, Mary; Greene, Joelle K. – Cognitive Development, 1994
Children's knowledge of the use of objects helped determine whether children's actions indicate their understanding of the functional use of objects independent of their ability to verbally describe the object or its function. Found that older children made fewer phenomenism errors but that the majority were still able to show the function of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience