Journal article
Visually scaling distance from memory: do visible midline boundaries make a difference?
Spatial cognition and computation, Vol.20(2), pp.134-159
04/02/2020
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2020.1734601
PMCID: PMC8789002
PMID: 35082551
Abstract
We examined how 4- to 5-year-old children and adults use perceptual structure (visible midline boundaries) to visually scale distance. Participants completed scaling and no scaling tasks using learning and test mats that were 16 and 64 inches. No boundaries were present in Experiment 1. Children and adults had more difficulty in the scaling than no scaling task when the test mat was 64 inches but not 16 inches. Experiment 2 was identical except visible midline boundaries were present. Again, participants had more difficulty in the scaling than no scaling task when the test mat was 64 inches, suggesting they used the test mat edges (not the midline boundary) as perceptual anchors when scaling from the learning to the test mat.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Visually scaling distance from memory: do visible midline boundaries make a difference?
- Creators
- Alycia M Hund - Psychology, Illinois State UniversityJodie M Plumert - Psychological and Brain Sciences, The University of IowaKara M Recker - Department of Psychology, Coe College
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Spatial cognition and computation, Vol.20(2), pp.134-159
- DOI
- 10.1080/13875868.2020.1734601
- PMID
- 35082551
- PMCID
- PMC8789002
- NLM abbreviation
- Spat Cogn Comput
- ISSN
- 1387-5868
- eISSN
- 1573-9252
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Grant note
- R03-HD36761 / National Institutes of Health (10.13039/100000002) BCS-0343034 / National Science Foundation (10.13039/100000001)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/02/2020
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984213396402771
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