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Aaron G Beckner¹, Mary Katz¹, David N Tompkins¹

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This study introduces a new eye-tracking task to assess mental rotation, a key spatial skill, in young children. Findings show children

Keywords:

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Neuroscience

Background:

Mental rotation is a crucial spatial cognitive ability that develops early in childhood.
Assessing this skill in infants and toddlers requires specialized, developmentally appropriate methods.
Existing methods may not be suitable for very young children's spatial skill assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel eye-tracking task for assessing mental rotation in 12-, 24-, and 36-month-old children.
To evaluate the efficacy of a staircase procedure for measuring spatial cognitive abilities in early development.
To investigate age-related differences in mental rotation performance in toddlers and young children.

Main Methods:

An eye-tracking task employing a staircase procedure was developed for 41 children aged 12-36 months.
A training phase ensured children understood the task of identifying a giraffe's target house.
The adaptive procedure involved rotating the giraffe in 15° or 30° increments to assess fixation accuracy.

Main Results:

The eye-tracking task successfully provided evidence of mental rotation abilities in most participating children.
Performance decreased as the angle of rotation increased, indicating task difficulty.
Older children (36 months) demonstrated success at larger rotation angles compared to younger children (12 and 24 months).

Conclusions:

The developed eye-tracking paradigm offers a viable method for assessing mental rotation in young children.
The findings support previous research by showing developmental improvements in mental rotation with age.
This new assessment tool has the potential to reveal insights into individual differences in early spatial cognition.