Core Geometry in Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Dillon, Moira R.; Spelke, Elizabeth S.
Titel	Core Geometry in Perspective
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 18 (2015) 6, S.894-908 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.12266
Schlagwörter	Geometry; Young Children; Visual Aids; Freehand Drawing; Spatial Ability; Geometric Concepts; Depth Perception; Map Skills; Experiments; Context Effect; Symbols (Mathematics); Familiarity; Navigation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geometrie; Frühe Kindheit; Anschauungsmaterial; Drawing; Zeichnen; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Elementare Geometrie; Depth psychology; Tiefenpsychologie; Kartenverständnis; Erprobung
Abstract	Research on animals, infants, children, and adults provides evidence that distinct cognitive systems underlie navigation and object recognition. Here we examine whether and how these systems interact when children interpret 2D edge-based perspectival line drawings of scenes and objects. Such drawings serve as symbols early in development, and they preserve scene and object geometry from canonical points of view. Young children show limits when using geometry both in non-symbolic tasks and in symbolic map tasks that present 3D contexts from unusual, unfamiliar points of view. When presented with the familiar viewpoints in perspectival line drawings, however, do children engage more integrated geometric representations? In three experiments, children successfully interpreted line drawings with respect to their depicted scene or object. Nevertheless, children recruited distinct processes when navigating based on the information in these drawings, and these processes depended on the context in which the drawings were presented. These results suggest that children are flexible but limited in using geometric information to form integrated representations of scenes and objects, even when interpreting spatial symbols that are highly familiar and faithful renditions of the visual world. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01