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Spencer, John P. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7320-144X and Hund, Alycia M.
(2003)
Developmental continuity in the processes that underlie spatial recall.
Cognitive Psychology, 47 (4).
pp. 432-480.
ISSN 0010-0285
Abstract
This study investigated whether children's spatial recall performance shows three separable characteristics: (1) biases away from symmetry axes (geometric effects); (2) systematic drift over delays; and (3) biases toward the exemplar distribution experienced in the task (experience-dependent effects). In Experiment 1, the location of one target within each geometric category was varied. Children's responses showed biases away from a midline axis that increased over delays. In Experiment 2, multiple targets were placed within each category at the same locations used in Experiment 1. After removing geometric effects, 6-year-olds'-but not 11-year-olds'-responses were biased toward the average remembered location over learning. In Experiment 3, children responded to one target more frequently than the others. Both 6- and 11-year-olds showed biases toward the most frequent target over learning. These results provide a bridge between the performance of younger children and adults, demonstrating continuity in the processes that underlie spatial memory abilities across development.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cognitive development,developmental continuity,developmental discontinuity,location memory,memory models,models of development,spatial cognition,spatial prototypes,spatial recall,working memory |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2015 17:02 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 00:26 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55276 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S0010-0285(03)00099-9 |
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