The Parallel Map Theory: Ontogeny of Flexible Spatial Strategies in Young Children
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serval:BIB_CB5628BA44C0
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
The Parallel Map Theory: Ontogeny of Flexible Spatial Strategies in Young Children
Journal
AMSCR-100035
ISSN
2652-4414
Publication state
Published
Issued date
10/01/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
2
Number
1
Language
english
Abstract
The parallel map theory explains that the hippocampus encodes space with two mapping systems: The bearing map created from ―directional cues and stimulus gradients‖; The sketch map constructed from ―positional cues‖. The integrated map combines the two mapping systems. Such parallel functioning may explain paradoxes of spatial learning in intellectual disabilities. This people may be able to memorize their surroundings in a highly detailed way, thus ordering their sensory perceptions into a representation that includes the precise localization of static objects, they are not able to ―map‖ their own spatial relationship to those objects. The detection of moving objects by these same subjects contributes to a primary bearing map. The primary map is thus generated by relying on this kind of static map, but also by detecting moving objects. This process can be described as a spatial mode of processing separate objects within the structure of an absolute reference system.
Keywords
Children, Eye-tracking, Flexible spatial strategies, Ontogeny, Parallel map theory, Reading
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Open Access
Yes
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14/01/2020 22:23
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21/11/2022 8:26