Eye Tracking Lateralized Spatial Associations in Early Childhood.

ABSTRACT: This experiment tests the age at which left-to-right spatial associations found in infancy shift to culture-specific spatial biases in later childhood, for both numerical and non-numerical information. Children ages 1 to 5 years (N=320) were tested within an eye-tracking paradigm which required passive viewing of a video portraying a spatial transposition. In this video, an item was hidden in a vertical set of locations, which were then surreptitiously rotated 90°. There were several conditions, which varied in the degree to which the locations were presented alongside ordinal (numerical, alphabetical) or non-ordinal (nonsense label) information. After transposition, a narrator prompted the child to visually search the array. The amount of time spent fixating in a location consistent with

SUBMITTER: West E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8942349 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature