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Shusterman, Anna; Ah Lee, Sang; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2011
Language has been linked to spatial representation and behavior in humans, but the nature of this effect is debated. Here, we test whether simple verbal expressions improve 4-year-old children's performance in a disoriented search task in a small rectangular room with a single red landmark wall. Disoriented children's landmark-guided search for a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Navigation, Verbal Communication, Spatial Ability