Developmental time course of the acquisition of sequential egocentric and allocentric navigation strategies

Bullens, J.; Igloi, Kinga; Berthoz, Alain; Postma, Albert; Rondi-Reig, Laure

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.05.010

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“…They found that both frames of reference were present in 5-year-old children (see also Newcombe & Huttenlocher, 2003). Bullens, Iglói, Berthoz, Postma, and Rondi-Reig (2010) tested spatial navigation abilities of 5-, 7-, and 10-year-old children by means of the StarMaze paradigm (Iglói, Zaoui, Berthoz, & Rondi-Reig, 2009). Results showed a gradual development from an egocentric to a more stable map-like representation between 5 and 10 years of age.…”

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“…While spatial strategies employed by adults are based on the parallel cooperation of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference (e.g., Nadel & Hardt, 2004), the capacity of children to efficiently integrate them seems to emerge at around 6 years of age (Bullens et al, 2010;Nardini et al, 2006; see also Nardini, Jones, Bedford, & Braddick, 2008). Some authors have suggested that this period is crucial for the development of executive functions that enable the acquisition of new skills such as selecting the appropriate spatial strategy and combining spatial and non-spatial environmental properties (Hermer & Spelke, 1994;Nardini et al, 2008Nardini et al, , 2009Vasilyeva & Lourenco, 2012).…”

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“…Furthermore, we expected an interaction between the space sector and the frames of reference: in peripersonal space a facilitation for the egocentric rather than allocentric encoding should emerge. Finally, age could also modulate these effectsthat is, a difficulty in the allocentric component of extrapersonal space could emerge in younger children and older adults (e.g., Bullens et al, 2010;Lithfous et al, 2013;Montefinese et al, 2014).…”

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Development of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations from childhood to elderly age

Ruggiero

D’Errico

Iachini

2015

Psychological Research

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Spatial reference frames are fundamental to represent the position of objects or places. Although research has reported changes in spatial memory abilities during childhood and elderly age, no study has assessed reference frames processing during the entire lifespan using the same task. Here, we aimed at providing some preliminary data on the capacity to process reference frames in 283 healthy participants from 6 to 89 years of age. A spatial memory task requiring egocentric/allocentric verbal judgments about objects in peri-/extrapersonal space was used. The main goals were: (1) tracing a baseline of the normal process of development of these spatial components; (2) clarifying if reference frames are differently vulnerable to age-related effects. Results showed a symmetry between children of 6-7 years and older people of 80-89 years who were slower and less accurate than all other age groups. As regards processing time, age had a strong effect on the allocentric component, especially in extrapersonal space, with a longer time in 6- to 7-year-old children and 80- to 89-year-old adults. The egocentric component looked less affected by aging. Regarding the level of spatial ability (accuracy), the allocentric ability appeared less sensitive to age-related variations, whereas the egocentric ability progressively improved from 8 years and declined from 60 years. The symmetry in processing time and level of spatial ability is discussed in relation to the development of executive functions and to the structural and functional changes due to incomplete maturation (in youngest children) and deterioration (in oldest adults) of underlying cerebral areas.

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Development of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations from childhood to elderly age

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“…23 It has been demonstrated that children up to the age of 10 fail to use an allocentric reference frame when retrieving previously learnt paths in a radial maze. 24 This failure, rather than to a pure lack of allocentric spatial encoding, has been attributed to a difficulty in switching from egoto allocentric encoding. This problem has been also addressed by Poirel et al 25 on a Piagetian task of length conservation (to judge which line is longer between a zigzag one and a straight counterpart), performed in either an egocentric perspective (ground view) or an allocentric one (aerial view), showing that allocentric errors decreased between 7 years and 10 years of age.…”

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“…These path-sparing errors seem to have a different meaning in CP than in typical development; in fact, their frequency is negatively related to span, signalling that here they represent a maladaptive sequential strategy. This could be due to the hyperactivation of left-brain spatial processes, such as lefthippocampal sequential egocentric memory (learning a sequence of movements), 24 without sufficient contribution from the contralateral areas subserving the simultaneous, non-serial representation of spatial relationships. 30 …”

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Anticipatory control and spatial cognition in locomotion and navigation through typical development and in cerebral palsy

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Cioni

Berthoz

2016

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Behavioural evidence, summarized in this narrative review, supports a developmental model of locomotor control based on increasing neural integration of spatial reference frames. Two consistent adult locomotor behaviours are head stabilization and head anticipation: the head is stabilized to gravity and leads walking direction. This cephalocaudal orienting organization aligns gaze and vestibula with a reference frame centred on the upcoming walking direction, allowing anticipatory control on body kinematics, but is not fully developed until adolescence. Walking trajectories and those of hand movements share many aspects, including power laws coupling velocity to curvature, and minimized spatial variability. In fact, the adult brain can code trajectory geometry in an allocentric reference frame, irrespective of the end effector, regulating body kinematics thereafter. Locomotor trajectory formation, like head anticipation, matures in early adolescence, indicating common neurocomputational substrates. These late-developing control mechanisms can be distinguished from biomechanical problems in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Children's performance on a novel navigation test, the Magic Carpet, indicates that typical navigation development consists of the increasing integration of egocentric and allocentric reference frames. In CP, right-brain impairment seems to reduce navigation performance due to a maladaptive left-brain sequential egocentric strategy. Spatial integration should be considered more in rehabilitation.Locomotion is one of the most important achievements of human development and very often the main target of intervention in motor disorders. In the past, however, the biomechanical complexity of human locomotion has concealed to some extent its cognitive and perceptual implications. However, to move purposefully and efficiently in space, the development of high-level control mechanisms, based on internal spatial representations, is required. In this short review, recent evidence on the following developmental achievements, and their disturbances in CP, is summarized: (1) the increasing role of the head as a perceptual interface between internal and external spaces in locomotion; (2) the increasing ability to integrate allocentric and egocentric reference frames for navigation. THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCOMOTOR POSTURAL CONTROLPostural control is used to maintain balance, provide a stable spatial reference frame, and set the sensory-motor system for 'preparation to act'.1 In healthy adults, during walking, running, and hopping, the head is stabilized in orientation relative to gravity.2 Since the head contains the two main spatial sensory systems, that is the visual and the vestibular one, keeping it stable provides the perfect interface between external and personal space. It also provides a stable platform on which the coordination of the multiple degrees of freedom of the body can be implemented. 3This head stabilization has a long developmental course, described by Assaiante. 4 In newly walking toddlers...

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Preserved navigation abilities and spatio‐temporal memory in individuals with autism spectrum disorder

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NAT-H, our in-house developed software. Fundings. This work was supported by the Investissements d'Avenir programs managed by the ANR under references ANR-11-IDEX-004-02 (Labex BioPsy) and ANR-10-COHO-10-01 and CNRS, and via collaboration with the Roche Institute for Research and Translational Medicine. Competing interests. MLLM and StH are employees of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., which supported a part of the study. None of the authors received any fees from Roche for this study. The Virtual Starmaze has been registered under license number

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Developmental time course of the acquisition of sequential egocentric and allocentric navigation strategies

Cited by 111 publications

References 51 publications

Development of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations from childhood to elderly age

Development of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations from childhood to elderly age

Anticipatory control and spatial cognition in locomotion and navigation through typical development and in cerebral palsy

Preserved navigation abilities and spatio‐temporal memory in individuals with autism spectrum disorder

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