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Alycia M Hund¹, Jodie M Plumert², Kara M Recker³

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Children and adults struggled with visual distance scaling on larger mats, relying on edges rather than midline boundaries for perceptual anchors. This difficulty was more pronounced with larger test mats, indicating challenges in visual scaling tasks.

Keywords:

cognitive development memory mental transformation spatial cognition spatial subdivision visible midline boundaries visual scaling

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Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Visual Perception

Background:

Visual scaling of distance is crucial for spatial cognition.
Understanding how perceptual structure influences distance perception is key.
Developmental differences in visual scaling abilities are not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how 4- to 5-year-old children and adults utilize perceptual structure for visual distance scaling.
To determine the role of visible midline boundaries in visual scaling tasks.
To compare performance on scaling and no-scaling tasks across different mat sizes.

Main Methods:

Participants (children and adults) performed visual distance scaling and no-scaling tasks.
Tasks involved learning and test mats of 16 and 64 inches.
Experiment 1: No midline boundaries present.
Experiment 2: Visible midline boundaries were present.

Main Results:

Both children and adults exhibited greater difficulty in scaling tasks compared to no-scaling tasks, particularly on the 64-inch mat.
Performance differences were not significant on the 16-inch mat.
In Experiment 2, participants continued to show increased difficulty on the larger mat, suggesting reliance on mat edges as perceptual anchors.

Conclusions:

Visible midline boundaries did not appear to aid visual distance scaling for either children or adults.
Participants, especially on larger surfaces, may default to using external mat edges as perceptual anchors rather than internal boundaries.
Age-related differences in visual scaling strategies warrant further investigation.