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Mental representations of rotation in young children

Pedrett, Salome ; Frick, Andrea (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2020.

The present thesis investigated how mental representations of rotation develop between 2 and 5.5 years of age. In Study 1, toddlers were presented with a rotating shape that disappeared briefly behind an occluder and reappeared either in its original or mirror-reversed form. Eye-tracking results showed that during visible rotation, toddlers between 2 and 3 years of age increasingly combined...

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Understanding of object rotation between two and three years of age

Pedrett, Salome ; Kaspar, Lea ; Frick, Andrea

In: Developmental Psychology, 2020, vol. 56, p. 261-274

Toddlers’ understanding of object rotation was investigated using a multi-method approach. Participants were 44 toddlers between 22 and 38 months of age. In an eye-tracking task, they observed a shape that rotated and disappeared briefly behind an occluder. In an object-fitting task, they rotated wooden blocks and fit them through apertures. Results of the eye-tracking task showed that with...

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