A GEOMETRIC PROCESS FOR SPATIAL REORIENTATION IN YOUNG-CHILDREN
A GEOMETRIC PROCESS FOR SPATIAL REORIENTATION IN YOUNG-CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1038/370057a0
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发表时间：
1994-07-07
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64.8
通讯作者：
SPELKE, ES
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作者：
HERMER, L;SPELKE, ES
定向障碍（1-3）大鼠和非人类灵长类动物利用环境的几何特征重新定向（2，4 -6）。在具有独特几何形状的环境中测试的大鼠中，这种能力不受标记重要位置的非几何信息（如颜色和气味）的影响，并用于其他空间任务。在这里，我们表明，成年人使用几何和非几何信息来重新定位自己，而年幼的孩子，像成年大鼠，只使用几何信息。这些发现提供了以下证据：（1）人类雅阁环境的形状重新定向;（2）幼儿的重新定向系统对除几何信息外的所有信息都不敏感（8），即使当非几何信息可用并由儿童重新呈现时-这些信息应该会提高表现，并被定向儿童用于类似的任务;（3）这一过程的局限性在人类发展过程中得到克服。
DISORIENTED(1-3) rats and non-human primates reorient themselves using geometrical features of the environment(2,4-6). In rats tested in environments with distinctive geometry, this ability is impervious to non-geometric information (such as colours and odours) marking important locations and used in other spatial tasks'. Here we show that adults use both geometric and non-geometric information to reorient themselves, whereas young children, like mature rats, use only geometric information. These findings provide evidence that: (1) humans reorient in accord with the shape of the environment; (2) the young child's reorientation system is impervious to all but geometric information(8), even when non-geometric information is available and is re-presented by the child-such information should improve performance and is used in similar tasks by the oriented child; and (3) the limits of this process are overcome during human development.