4 ms·
"For example, infants don't have spacial awareness, or understand how objects can be relative to each other, until they learn the words for describing relativit
by uncompetence 14y ago
"For example, infants don't have spacial awareness, or understand how objects can be relative to each other, until they learn the words for describing relativity."
Where's the citation on this?
- cafard 14y agoIndeed. Infants can home in on a breast or a bottle from the get-go; babies are crawling by about 6 months, and walking at about 1 year. They are able to grasp and manipulate objects around six months, I believe. All these seem to imply spatial awareness.
- wvenable 14y agoQuick googling and I didn't find the article but I have read it. Maybe someone can find the magic keywords. The crux of the study was that children who don't know the words left and right don't appear to have an innate ability to understand the relative positions of objects related to other objects. Children with the language for left and right can remember relative positioning but children without those words do not.