The authors provide a new framework that integrates autobiographical memory with other
early achievements (eg, gesturing, language, concept formation). In this theory, the …

Spatial cognition plays an essential role in everyday functioning and provides a foundation
for successful performance in scientific and technological fields. Reasoning about space …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

This study focuses on three main goals: First, 3‐year‐olds' spatial assembly skills are
probed using interlocking block constructions (N= 102). A detailed scoring scheme provides …

Opening a box a toddler says open; seeing a toy car in it she says car; taking the car out she
says out; putting it on the floor she says down. In the world at large these little remarks do not …

Space is an important preoccupation of young children. From birth on, infants explore the
spatial properties of their environment, at first visually and proprioceptively, and then through …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional
relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects …

Does language influence nonlinguistic cognition, and do different languages influence it in
different ways? Testing these classical Whorfian questions presupposes speakers who are …

The intermodal preferential looking paradigm (IPLP) has proven to be a revolutionary
method for the examination of infants' emerging language knowledge. In the IPLP, infants' …