Early puzzle play: a predictor of preschoolers' spatial transformation skill.

Developmental Psychology Early Puzzle Play: A Predictor of Preschoolers' Spatial Transformation Skill

Developing spatial visualization and mental rotation with a digital puzzle game at primary school level

Spatial ability has been recognized as a significant human skill involving the retrieval, retention, and transformation of visual information in a special context. The enhancement of the spatial ability and the effective method of training are rarely considered as an area of study in the education field. This study focuses on the enhancement of spatial visualization and mental rotation, which a...

Deconstructing building blocks: preschoolers' spatial assembly performance relates to early mathematical skills.

This study focuses on three main goals: First, 3-year-olds' spatial assembly skills are probed using interlocking block constructions (N = 102). A detailed scoring scheme provides insight into early spatial processing and offers information beyond a basic accuracy score. Second, the relation of spatial assembly to early mathematical skills was evaluated. Spatial skill independently predicted a ...

A Puzzle for your thoughts: Information about the difficulty of one task influences preschoolers' exploratory play with a novel toy

Exploration is an important component of learning. Previous research has focused on how information in a particular situation affects exploratory play. An important question is the degree to which past exploration and learning experiences affect exploration in novel contexts. In particular, children often get information about the difficulty of a completed task (“that was hard!”), but we do not...

Motor skill interventions to improve fundamental movement skills of preschoolers with developmental delay.

Preschoolers with developmental delay (DD) are at risk for poor fundamental movement skills (FMS), but a paucity of early FMS interventions exist. The purpose of this review was to critically appraise the existing interventions to establish direction for future trials targeting preschoolers with DD. A total of 11 studies met the inclusion criteria. Major findings were summarized based on common...