Spatial orientation assessment in preschool children: Egocentric and allocentric frameworks

C Fernandez-Baizan, JL Arias… - Applied Neuropsychology …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Spatial orientation is an important function in daily life because it allows us to reach a target
place when moving through our environment, using self-centered (egocentric) or …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring spatial navigation during locomotion in children: A systematic review

N Martín-Pozuelo, L Carballo-Costa, M Solís-García… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Background Spatial navigation allows us to move around our environment, walking being
the most advanced form of human locomotion. Over the years, a range of tools has been …

Children's exposure to spatial language promotes their spatial thinking.

M Casasola, WS Wei, DD Suh, P Donskoy… - Journal of …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Does spatial language contribute to the growth of preschool children's spatial skills? Four-
year-old children (N= 50) were randomly assigned to a play-only (n= 24) or a spatial …

Object recognition and location: Which component of object location memory for landmarks is affected by gender? Evidence from four to ten year-old children

A Bocchi, L Palermo, M Boccia, M Palmiero… - Applied …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Memory for object location requires at least three processes: object recognition, object
location, and object-location binding. Gender-related differences during childhood are still a …

The role of emotional landmarks in embodied and not-embodied tasks

L Piccardi, P Guariglia, R Nori, M Palmiero - Brain Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The role of emotional landmarks in navigation has been scarcely studied. Previous findings
showed that valence and arousal of landmarks increase landmark's salience and improve …

The influence of age in women in visuo-spatial memory in reaching and navigation tasks with and without landmarks

A Perrochon, S Mandigout, S Petruzzellis, NS Garcia… - Neuroscience …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spatial memory and navigation capabilities tend to decline in normal aging, but few studies
have assessed the impact of landmarks on route learning in a large-scale environment. The …

Enhancing allocentric spatial recall in pre-schoolers through navigational training programme

M Boccia, M Rosella, F Vecchione, A Tanzilli… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Unlike for other abilities, children do not receive systematic spatial orientation training at
school, even though navigational training during adulthood improves spatial skills. We …

Early spatial language development and education: a scoping review

D Wu, H Li, S Degotardi - SN Social Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Early spatial language plays an important role in facilitating cognition and thoughts thus
deserves empirical studies. This scoping review aims to synthesis the empirical evidence to …

Preschoolers' Perceptual Analogical Reasoning and Map Reading: A Preliminary Study on the Mediating Effect of Spatial Language

M Giancola, MC Pino, V Riccio, L Piccardi, S D'Amico - Children, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reading and interpreting a map represents an essential part of daily life, enabling
appropriate orientation and navigation through space. Based on the idea that perceptual …

Evidence of taxonomy for developmental topographical disorientation: developmental landmark agnosia case 1

L Piccardi, M De Luca, A Di Vita, L Palermo… - Applied …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT We report Developmental Landmark Agnosia (DLA) in a 6-year-old boy (LG)
who was referred to us for congenital prosopagnosia (see Pizzamiglio et al., 2017, in which …