The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning.
dc.contributor.author | Wimmer, Marina | |
dc.contributor.author | Maras, KL | |
dc.contributor.author | Robinson, EJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Thomas, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-08T13:57:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-08T13:57:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-09 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0010-0277 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1873-7838 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/4857 | |
dc.description.abstract |
This study examined the development and format of children's mental images. Children (4-, 5-, 6-7-, 8-9-, and 11-year-olds) and adults (N=282) viewed a map of a fictitious island containing various landmarks and two misleading signposts, indicating that some equidistant landmarks were different distances apart. Five-year-olds already revealed the linear time-distance scanning effect, previously shown in adults (Experiments 1 and 2): They took longer to mentally scan their image of the island with longer distances between corresponding landmarks, indicating the depictive format of children's mental images. Unlike adults, their scanning times were not affected by misleading top-down distance information on the signposts until age 8 (Experiment 1) unless they were prompted to the difference from the outset (Experiment 2). Findings provide novel insights into the format of children's mental images in a mental scanning paradigm and show that children's mental images can be susceptible to top-down influences as are adults'. | |
dc.format.extent | 49-54 | |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
dc.subject | Cognitive development | |
dc.subject | Mental imagery | |
dc.subject | Image scanning | |
dc.subject | Format | |
dc.subject | Visuo-spatial processes | |
dc.title | The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning. | |
dc.type | journal-article | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dc.type | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | |
plymouth.author-url | https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000380596500007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=11bb513d99f797142bcfeffcc58ea008 | |
plymouth.volume | 154 | |
plymouth.publication-status | Published | |
plymouth.journal | Cognition | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.017 | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Health | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA04 Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Research Groups | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Research Groups/Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB) | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Research Groups/Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB)/Cognition | |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2016-05-23 | |
dc.rights.embargodate | 2017-5-27 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-7838 | |
dc.rights.embargoperiod | Not known | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.017 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2016-09 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review |