Enhancing Allocentric Spatial Recall in Pre-schoolers through Navigational Training Programme
| Autor: | Maddalena Boccia, Michela Rosella, Francesca Vecchione, Antonio Tanzilli, Liana Palermo, Simonetta D'Amico, Cecilia Guariglia, Laura Piccardi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
viruses education human navigation normal development allocentric representation egocentric representation spatial orientation training environmental knowledge survey knowledge survey knowledge Audiology computer.software_genre 050105 experimental psychology lcsh:RC321-571 Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine human navigation spatial orientation training Orientation training medicine egocentric representation 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences normal development lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Training programme Original Research Pre schoolers Multimedia Recall General Neuroscience 05 social sciences allocentric representation environmental knowledge neuroscience (all) Spatial skills Psychology computer 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Neuroscience Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 11 (2017) |
| Popis: | Unlike for other abilities, children do not receive systematic spatial orientation training at school, even though navigational training during adulthood improves spatial skills. We investigated whether navigational training programme (NTP) improved spatial orientation skills in pre-schoolers. We administered 12-week NTP to seventeen 4- to 5-year-old children (training group, TG). The TG children and 17 age-matched children (control group, CG) who underwent standard didactics were tested twice before (T0) and after (T1) the NTP using tasks that tap into landmark, route and survey representations. We determined that the TG participants significantly improved their performances in the most demanding navigational task, which is the task that taps into survey representation. This improvement was significantly higher than that observed in the CG, suggesting that NTP fostered the acquisition of survey representation. Such representation is typically achieved by age seven. This finding suggests that NTP improves performance on higher-level navigational tasks in pre-schoolers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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