Can 28-month-old children learn spatial prepositions robustly from pictures? Yes, when narrative input is provided

The learning of spatial prepositions is assumed to be based on experience in space. In a slow mapping study, we investigated whether 31 German 28-month-old children could robustly learn the German spatial prepositions hinter [behind] and neben [next to] from pictures, and whether a narrative input c...

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Main Authors: Katharina J. Rohlfing, Kerstin Nachtigäller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00961/full