Lingwood, Jamie and Blades, Mark and Farran, Emily K. and Courbois, Yannick and Matthews, Danielle (2015) The development of wayfinding abilities in children: Learning routes with and without landmarks. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 41. pp. 74-80. ISSN 0272-4944
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Abstract
Young children experience wayfinding difficulties. A better understanding of the development of wayfinding abilities may inform strategies that can be used to improve these skills in children. The ability to learn and remember a route was assessed in 220 6-, 8-, and 10-year old children and adults. Participants were shown a route in a virtual environment, before they were asked to retrace this route until they had
achieved two consecutive trials without error. The virtual environment contained (i) no landmarks (ii) landmarks or (iii) landmarks that were verbally labelled. Adults, 10-year-olds and most 8-year-olds learnt the route when landmarks were present, but not all the 6-year-olds were successful. All age groups of children improved when the landmarks were labelled. Children were much poorer when there were no landmarks. This is the first study to distinguish between route learning dependent on landmarks, and route learning without landmarks (i.e. dependent on directions)
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Jamie Lingwood |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2023 12:49 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2023 12:49 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3760 |
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