The Child's Conception of Space

Single‐trial regression of spatial exploration behavior indicates posterior EEG alpha modulation to reflect egocentric coding

“…Following a previously learned sequence of actions derived from a preceding cue allows to successfully complete this task. In children, Jensen et al first assumed an ontogenetic sequence from egocentric (self-to-object) to allocentric (object-to-object) representations (Hazen et al, 1978;Jensen et al, 1958;Siegel & White, 1975). In their words, the first stage of spatial knowledge entails encoding sensory representations of landmarks such as the hot-dog stand.…”