Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10998046 | Infant Behavior and Development | 2016 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Mental rotation (MR) involves the ability to predict how an object will look once it has been rotated into a new orientation in space. To date, studies of MR in infants have tested this ability using abstract stimuli presented using a single display. Evidence from existing studies suggests that using multiple displays may affect an infant's performance in some kinds of MR tasks. This study used Moore & Johnson's (2008) simplified Shepard-Metzler objects in a dual-monitor MR task presented to five-month-old infants. Evidence for MR in infancy was found. These findings have implications for MR testing in infancy and the influence of display properties on infant MR performance.
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Authors
Joan Christodoulou, Scott P. Johnson, Dawn M. Moore, David S. Moore,