Spatial Thinking in Infancy: Origins and Development of Mental Rotation Between 3 and 10 Months of Age

摘要

Stimulus object used in Christodoulou, Johnson, Moore, and Moore ( ), Constantinescu, Moore, Johnson, and Hines ( ), Heil, Krüger, Krist, Johnson, and Moore ( ), Moore and Johnson ( , ), and Slone, Moore, and Johnson ( ). Infants were habituated to a video of this object—or its mirror-image—rotating back and forth on its vertical axis through a 240-degree angle. After habituation, infants were tested with a video showing this object (or its mirror-image) rotating back and forth on its vertical axis through the previously unseen 120 degrees of arc. Adapted from Moore and Johnson ( ), Fig. 1