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- Two experiments investigated how children and adults generate and maintain visual-spatial mental imagery, with participants ranging from 4 to 10 years old and including adults (N = 211).
- The first experiment found that while basic abilities for generating and maintaining mental images appear around age 4, the accuracy and precision of these images significantly improve as children grow, especially between ages 4 and 8.
- The second experiment revealed that as children get older, their mental images increasingly resemble actual visual objects, suggesting that children reach adult-like accuracy in simple imagery tasks earlier than previously thought.
Article Abstract
Two experiments examined the nature of visuo-spatial mental imagery generation and maintenance in 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-year old children and adults (N = 211). The key questions were how image generation and maintenance develop (Experiment 1) and how accurately children and adults coordinate mental and visually perceived images (Experiment 2). Experiment 1 indicated that basic image generation and maintenance abilities are present at 4 years of age but the precision with which images are generated and maintained improves particularly between 4 and 8 years. In addition to increased precision, Experiment 2 demonstrated that generated and maintained mental images become increasingly similar to visually perceived objects. Altogether, findings suggest that for simple tasks demanding image generation and maintenance, children attain adult-like precision younger than previously reported. This research also sheds new light on the ability to coordinate mental images with visual images in children and adults.
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