Making space : the development of spatial representation and reasoning / Nora S. Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newcombe, Nora, author.

Huttenlocher, Janellen, author.

Series:

Learning, development, and conceptual change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space perception in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2000]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Nora Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher argue for an interactionist approach to spatial development that incorporates and integrates essential insights of the classic three approaches. They show how biological preparedness interacts with the spatial environment that infants encounter after birth to create spatial development and mature spatial competence. Topics covered include spatial coding during infancy and childhood; the early origins of coding distance in continuous space, of coding location with respect to distal external landmarks, and of hierarchical combination of information; the mental processes that operate on stored spatial information; spatial information as encoded in models and maps; and spatial information as encoded in language.

Contents:

Chapter 2 Thinking about Space 13

Chapter 3 Two Hypotheses about Infant Location Coding 39

Chapter 4 Three Other Important Questions about the Development of Location Coding (and an Epilogue on Automaticity) 73

Chapter 5 Development of Spatial Thought 109

Chapter 6 Models and Maps 145

Chapter 7 Space and Language 179

Chapter 8 Thinking about Development 207.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-251) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Newcombe, Nora. Making space.

ISBN:

9780262280594

0262280590

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.