Transfer in young children's understanding of spatial representations.

Analogical processes in children's understanding of spatial representations.

We propose that map reading can be construed as a form of analogical mapping. We tested 2 predictions that follow from this claim: First, young children's patterns of performance in map reading tasks should parallel those found in analogical mapping tasks; and, second, children will benefit from guided alignment instructions that help them see the relational correspondences between the map and ...

Young Children's Perception of Diagrammatic Representations

Core foundations of abstract geometry.

Human adults from diverse cultures share intuitions about the points, lines, and figures of Euclidean geometry. Do children develop these intuitions by drawing on phylogenetically ancient and developmentally precocious geometric representations that guide their navigation and their analysis of object shape? In what way might these early-arising representations support later-developing Euclidean...

Saliency Cognition of Urban Monuments Based on Verbal Descriptions of Mental-Spatial Representations (Case Study: Urban Monuments in Qazvin)

Urban monuments encompass a wide range of architectural works either intentionally or unintentionally. These works are often salient due to their inherently explicit or hidden components and qualities in the urban context. Therefore, they affect the mental-spatial representations of the environment and make the city legible. However, the ambiguity of effective components often complicates their...

Exploring in Sample Space: Developing Young Children’s Knowledge of Randomness

This paper focuses on 6-8 year-old children's thinking about randomness. It reports the findings of a study in which the children engaged with a game-like environment to construct for themselves spatial representations of sample space. The system was designed so that the rules governing the relationships between the selection of elements of the sample space and the outcomes of the game were ava...