Scaling Up = Scaling Down? Children's Spatial Scaling in Different Perceptual Modalities and Scaling Directions

Autor/inn/en	Möhring, Wenke; Szubielska, Magdalena
Titel	Scaling Up = Scaling Down? Children's Spatial Scaling in Different Perceptual Modalities and Scaling Directions
Quelle	In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8 (2023), Artikel 62 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Möhring, Wenke)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1186/s41235-023-00517-7
Schlagwörter	Children; Spatial Ability; Tactual Perception; Visual Perception; Reaction Time; Accuracy; Error Patterns; Scaling + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Taktile Wahrnehmung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Reaktionsvermögen; Fehlertyp; Scale construction; Skalenkonstruktion
Abstract	The present study examined whether scaling direction and perceptual modality affect children's spatial scaling. Children aged 6-8 years (N = 201) were assigned to a visual, visuo-haptic, and haptic condition in which they were presented with colourful, embossed graphics. In the haptic condition, they were asked to wear a blindfold during the test trials. Across several trials, children were asked to learn about the position of a target in a map and to localize a disc at the same location in a referent space. Scaling factor was manipulated systematically, so that children had to either scale up or scale down spatial information. Their absolute deviations from the correct target location, reversal and signed errors, and response times served as dependent variables. Results revealed higher absolute deviations and response times for the haptic modality as opposed to the visual modality. Children's signed errors, however, showed similar response strategies across the perceptual conditions. Therefore, it seems that a functional equivalence between vision and touch seems to emerge slowly across development for spatial scaling. With respect to scaling directions, findings showed that absolute deviations were affected by scaling factors, with symmetric increases in scaling up and scaling down in the haptic condition. Conversely, children showed an unbalanced pattern in the visual conditions, with higher accuracy in scaling down as opposed to scaling up. Overall, our findings suggest that visibility seems to factor into children's scaling process. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01