Coding Locations Relative to One or Many Landmarks in Childhood.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive development studies how information processing in the brain changes over the course of development. A key part of this question is how information is represented and stored in memory. This study examined allocentric (world-based) spatial memory, an important cognitive tool for planning routes and interacting with the space around us. This is typically theorized to use multiple landmarks all at once whenever it operates. In contrast, here we show that allocentric spatial memory frequently operates over a limited spatial window, much less than the full proximal scene, for children between 3.5 and 8.5 years old. The use of multiple landmarks increases gradually with age. Participants were asked to point to a remembered target location after a change of view in immersive virtual real

SUBMITTER: Negen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6816551 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature