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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • School readiness encompasses crucial skills like linguistic, phonological, logical-mathematical, and psychomotor abilities.
  • Mental imagery, including generation, inspection, and rotation, is a key cognitive process in early development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between school readiness skills and mental imagery processes in preschool children.
  • To identify specific mental imagery components that correlate with school readiness.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed 100 preschool children (50 boys, 50 girls, aged 4-5) using two test batteries.
  • Evaluated school readiness skills and mental imagery processes, including generation, inspection, and rotation.

Main Results:

  • A significant relationship was found between mental imagery generation and inspection processes and school readiness skills.
  • These findings suggest a strong link between cognitive imagery abilities and foundational academic skills.

Conclusions:

  • Screening preschoolers for mental imagery ability is recommended.
  • Interventions to enhance mental imagery may positively impact school readiness and skill development.