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Dillon, Moira R.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The origins and development of our geometric intuitions have been debated for millennia. The present study links children's developing intuitions about the properties of planar triangles to their developing abilities to read purely geometric maps. Six-year-old children are limited when navigating by maps that depict only the sides of a triangle in…
Descriptors: Intuition, Geometry, Child Development, Maps
Huang, Yi; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Map reading is unique to humans but is present in people of diverse cultures, at ages as young as 4 years old. Here, we explore the nature and sources of this ability and ask both what geometric information young children use in maps and what nonsymbolic systems are associated with their map-reading performance. Four-year-old children were given…
Descriptors: Maps, Task Analysis, Correlation, Young Children
Izard, Véronique; O'Donnell, Evan; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Child Development, 2014
Preschool children can navigate by simple geometric maps of the environment, but the nature of the geometric relations they use in map reading remains unclear. Here, children were tested specifically on their sensitivity to angle. Forty-eight children (age 47:15-53:30 months) were presented with fragments of geometric maps, in which angle sections…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Maps, Map Skills, Spatial Ability
Winkler-Rhoades, Nathan; Carey, Susan C.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2013
In two experiments, 2.5-year-old children spontaneously used geometric information from 2D maps to locate objects in a 3D surface layout, without instruction or feedback. Children related maps to their corresponding layouts even though the maps differed from the layouts in size, mobility, orientation, dimensionality, and perspective, and even when…
Descriptors: Young Children, Toddlers, Spatial Ability, Memory
Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Gilmore, Camilla K.; McCarthy, Shannon – Developmental Science, 2011
Geometrical concepts are critical to a host of human cognitive achievements, from maps to measurement to mathematics, and both the development of these concepts, and their variation by gender, have long been studied. Most studies of geometrical reasoning, however, present children with materials containing both geometric and non-geometric…
Descriptors: Maps, Kindergarten, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
Shusterman, Anna; Lee, Sang Ah; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2008
Two experiments tested whether 4-year-old children extract and use geometric information in simple maps without task instruction or feedback. Children saw maps depicting an arrangement of three containers and were asked to place an object into a container designated on the map. In Experiment 1, one of the three locations on the map and the array…
Descriptors: Maps, Error Patterns, Geometric Concepts, Young Children