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Two‐year‐old children interpret abstract, purely geometric maps
Author(s) -
WinklerRhoades Nathan,
Carey Susan C.,
Spelke Elizabeth S.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
developmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.801
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1467-7687
pISSN - 1363-755X
DOI - 10.1111/desc.12038
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , psychology , curse of dimensionality , orientation (vector space) , function (biology) , spatial ability , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , communication , cognitive science , computer science , cognition , geometry , mathematics , evolutionary biology , neuroscience , biology
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 they did not depict the target objects directly. Early in development, therefore, children are capable of noting the referential function of strikingly abstract visual representations.