Young children can use their subjective straight-ahead to remap visuo-motor alterations.

ABSTRACT: Young children and adults process spatial information differently: the former use their bodies as primary reference, while adults seem capable of using abstract frames. The transition is estimated to occur between the 6th and the 12th year of age. The mechanisms underlying spatial encoding in children and adults are unclear, as well as those underlying the transition. Here, we investigated the role of the subjective straight-ahead (SSA), the body antero-posterior half-plane mental model, in spatial encoding before and after the expected transition. We tested 6-7-year-old and 10-11-year-old children, and adults on a spatial alignment task in virtual reality, searching for differences in performance when targets were placed frontally or sideways. The performance differences were assessed bot

SUBMITTER: Esposito D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10119127 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature