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DOI	10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101307
	Children five-to-nine years old can use path integration to build a cognitive map without vision
	Bostelmann, Mathilde; Lavenex, Pierre; Lavenex, Pamela Banta
通讯作者	Lavenex, PB
来源期刊	COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	0010-0285
EISSN	1095-5623
出版年	2020
卷号	121
英文摘要	Although spatial navigation competence improves greatly from birth to adulthood, different spatial memory capacities emerge at different ages. Here, we characterized the capacity of 5-9-year-old children to use path integration to build egocentric and allocentric spatial representations to navigate in their environment, and compared their performance with that of young adults. First, blindfolded participants were tested on their ability to return to a starting point after being led on straight and two-legged paths. This egocentric homing task comprising angular and linear displacements allowed us to evaluate path integration capacities in absence of external landmarks. Second, we evaluated whether participants could use path integration, in absence of visual information, to create an allocentric spatial representation to navigate along novel paths between objects, and thus demonstrate the ability to build a cognitive map of their environment. Ninety percent of the 5-9-year-old children could use path integration to create an egocentric representation of their journey to return to a starting point, but they were overall less precise than adults. Sixty-four percent of 5-9-year-old children were capable of using path integration to build a cognitive map enabling them to take shortcuts, and task performance was not dependent on age. Imprecisions in novel paths made by the children who built a cognitive map could be explained by poorer integration of the experienced turns during the learning phase, as well as greater individual variability. In sum, these findings demonstrate that 5-9-year-old children can use path integration to build a cognitive map in absence of visual information.
英文关键词	Egocentric Homing behavior Allocentric Cognitive map Precision Spatial resolution Development
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000567396600004
WOS关键词	ALLOCENTRIC SPATIAL MEMORY ; DESERT ANTS ; KNOWLEDGE ; BLIND ; REPRESENTATION ; ORIENTATION ; NAVIGATION ; INFANTS ; LANDMARKS ; DISTANCE
WOS类目	Psychology ; Psychology, Experimental
WOS研究方向	Psychology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/326139
作者单位	[Bostelmann, Mathilde; Lavenex, Pierre; Lavenex, Pamela Banta] Univ Lausanne, Inst Psychol, Lab Brain & Cognit Dev, CH-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland; [Lavenex, Pamela Banta] Swiss Distance Univ Inst, Fac Psychol, CH-3900 Brig, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bostelmann, Mathilde,Lavenex, Pierre,Lavenex, Pamela Banta. Children five-to-nine years old can use path integration to build a cognitive map without vision[J],2020,121.
APA	Bostelmann, Mathilde,Lavenex, Pierre,&Lavenex, Pamela Banta.(2020).Children five-to-nine years old can use path integration to build a cognitive map without vision.COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY,121.
MLA	Bostelmann, Mathilde,et al."Children five-to-nine years old can use path integration to build a cognitive map without vision".COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 121(2020).