“…Other hippocampal‐dependent tasks that have been adapted for children include the Morris water maze and open‐field search tasks. Converging evidence indicates that children can learn these maze paradigms by about the age of 7 years, and they become progressively more adept at solving the tasks through the age of 12 years, whereas when cues signal the correct responses (and thus putatively engage striatal‐dependent habit learning), children of all ages tested display adult‐like performance (Overman, Pate et al., ; Lehnung et al, ; Leplow et al., ; Mandolesi et al., ; Bullens, Székely, Vedder, & Postma, ; Townsend, Richmond, Vogel‐Farley, & Thomas, ). These results suggest that the ability to use a striatal‐dependent stimulus‐response strategy is present much earlier than the ability to use a hippocampal‐dependent spatial strategy.…”