Children’s Understanding of Topological Relations DOI Creative Commons
Sami R. Yousif,

Lester Goldstein,

Elizabeth M. Brannon

et al.

Open Mind, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9, P. 401 - 417

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

A core aim of developmental cognitive science is to uncover the basic building blocks human thought. For instance, work revealing that even young children, adults without formal education, and distant animal species are sensitive Euclidean properties indicates humans may be endowed with some primitive understanding geometry. But what about other forms geometry? Here, we explore children's sensitivity topological spatial forms. We show like adults, spontaneously distinguish match items in accordance their relations. As well, judgments object similarity remarkably consistent adults', indicating stability concepts throughout lifespan. Finally, compare various geometric curvature, perpendicularity, symmetry, find while there variability performance across all features tested, overall for vs. comparable. Collectively, these findings suggest children have an intuitive relations among visuospatial representation.

Language: Английский

Children’s Understanding of Topological Relations DOI Creative Commons
Sami R. Yousif,

Lester Goldstein,

Elizabeth M. Brannon

et al.

Open Mind, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9, P. 401 - 417

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

A core aim of developmental cognitive science is to uncover the basic building blocks human thought. For instance, work revealing that even young children, adults without formal education, and distant animal species are sensitive Euclidean properties indicates humans may be endowed with some primitive understanding geometry. But what about other forms geometry? Here, we explore children's sensitivity topological spatial forms. We show like adults, spontaneously distinguish match items in accordance their relations. As well, judgments object similarity remarkably consistent adults', indicating stability concepts throughout lifespan. Finally, compare various geometric curvature, perpendicularity, symmetry, find while there variability performance across all features tested, overall for vs. comparable. Collectively, these findings suggest children have an intuitive relations among visuospatial representation.

Language: Английский

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