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Rev Elec Psic Izt 2023; 26 (2)

Mental rotation and the comprehension of words in 12-months-old infants

Peyrot NI, Alva CEA

Language: Spanish
References: 25
Page: 568-587
PDF size: 666.24 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The objective of the present study was to find out if there is a relation between vocabulary size and mental rotation. Thirteen 12-montholds and typically developed infants participated. Infant vocabulary size was measured with CDI MacArthur-Bates. Two mental rotation tasks were designed under a novelty preference procedure. One of the tasks presented fixed familiarization trials in silence and for the other one, a verbal cue was presented; test trials were presented in silence. It was found a significant correlation between comprehended words and novelty preference despite the task or the gender. There were also correlations for semantic categories: Locative Adverbs, Furniture and rooms, People and Vehicles (real or toy). The relations showed the infant's experience with words related to the recognition of objects because words are used to identify and categorize object, even when there are different new angles of a dynamic object.


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