Piccardi, Laura, Palermo, Liana, Bocchi, Alessia, Guariglia, Cecilia and d'Amico, Simonetta (2015). Does spatial locative comprehension predict landmark-based navigation? PLoS ONE, 10 (1),
Abstract
In the present study we investigated the role of spatial locative comprehension in learning and retrieving pathways when landmarks were available and when they were absent in a sample of typically developing 6- to 11-year-old children. Our results show that the more proficient children are in understanding spatial locatives the more they are able to learn pathways, retrieve them after a delay and represent them on a map when landmarks are present in the environment. These findings suggest that spatial language is crucial when individuals rely on sequences of landmarks to drive their navigation towards a given goal but that it is not involved when navigational representations based on the geometrical shape of the environment or the coding of body movements are sufficient for memorizing and recalling short pathways.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115432 |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology |
Additional Information: | © 2015 Piccardi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine |
Publication ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 10:44 |
Date Deposited: | 10 Nov 2015 10:45 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2015-01-28 |
Authors: |
Piccardi, Laura
Palermo, Liana ( 0000-0001-8047-7201) Bocchi, Alessia Guariglia, Cecilia d'Amico, Simonetta |