Eye Tracking Lateralized Spatial Associations in Early Childhood

Autor/inn/en	West, Eloise; McCrink, Koleen
Titel	Eye Tracking Lateralized Spatial Associations in Early Childhood
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 22 (2021) 5, S.678-694 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2021.1926254
Schlagwörter	Eye Movements; Spatial Ability; Preschool Children; Video Technology; Age Differences; Infants; Task Analysis; Visual Stimuli; Cognitive Mapping; Child Development; Developmental Stages; Toddlers; Undergraduate Students; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Aufgabenanalyse; Kindesentwicklung; Infants
Abstract	This experiment tests the age at which left-to-right spatial associations found in infancy shift to culture-specific spatial biases in later childhood, for both numerical and non-numerical information. Children ages 1-5 years (N = 320) were tested within an eye-tracking paradigm which required passive viewing of a video portraying a spatial transposition. In this video, an item was hidden in a vertical set of locations, which were then surreptitiously rotated 90°. There were several conditions, which varied in the degree to which the locations were presented alongside ordinal (numerical, alphabetical) or non-ordinal (nonsense label) information. After transposition, a narrator prompted the child to visually search the array. The amount of time spent fixating in a location consistent with a left-to-right mapping or a right-to-left mapping was measured to gauge the degree and laterality of spatial associations. Overall, children looked more toward locations consistent with a left-to-right mapping. This effect fluctuated with age, dipping as children entered toddlerhood, increasing in 3- and 4-year-olds, and then disappearing at age 5. The ordinal nature of the stimuli (e.g., numerical or non-numerical) did not influence the laterality of the spatial associations. A follow-up experiment confirms that, like older preschoolers, adults (N = 66) also exhibit no spontaneous left-to-right mapping bias in this paradigm, with no fluctuation as a result of condition. These data support the presence of a decrease in left-to-right processing around the age of two as children recede from infantile spatial biases and progress to exhibiting culture-specific spatial biases in early childhood. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01