Making space : the development of spatial representation and reasoning /

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until recently three approaches have...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newcombe, Nora
Other Authors: Huttenlocher, Janellen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Ã2000
Series:Learning, development, and conceptual change.
Subjects:
Space perception in children.
Children.
Space perception.
Child
Space Perception
Perception spatiale chez l'enfant.
Enfants.
Perception spatiale.
children (people by age group)
space perception.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Child.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > Child & Adolescent.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Child Development.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Thinking about Space
  • 3. Two Hypotheses about Infant Location Coding
  • 4. Three Other Important Questions about the Development of Location Coding (and an Epilogue on Automaticity)
  • 5. Development of Spatial Thought
  • 6. Models and Maps
  • 7. Space and Language
  • 8. Thinking about Development
  • References
  • Index.

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