Dokument-ID Dokumenttyp Verfasser/Autoren Herausgeber Haupttitel Abstract Auflage Verlagsort Verlag Erscheinungsjahr Seitenzahl Schriftenreihe Titel Schriftenreihe Bandzahl ISBN Quelle der Hochschulschrift Konferenzname Quelle:Titel Quelle:Jahrgang Quelle:Heftnummer Quelle:Erste Seite Quelle:Letzte Seite URN DOI Abteilungen OPUS4-53680 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel Göbel, Silke M.; McCrink, Koleen; Fischer, Martin H.; Shaki, Samuel Observation of directional storybook reading influences young children's counting direction Even before formal schooling, children map numbers onto space in a directional manner. The origin of this preliterate spatial-numerical association is still debated. We investigated the role of enculturation for shaping the directionality of the association between numbers and space, focusing on counting behavior in 3- to 5-year-old preliterate children. Two studies provide evidence that, after observing reading from storybooks (left-to-right or right-to-left reading) children change their counting direction in line with the direction of observed reading. Just observing visuospatial directional movements had no such effect on counting direction. Complementarily, we document that book illustrations, prevalent in children's cultures, exhibit directionality that conforms to the direction of a culture's written language. We propose that shared book reading activates spatiotemporal representations of order in young children, which in turn affect their spatial representation of numbers. New York Elsevier 2018 18 Journal of experimental child psychology 166 49 66 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.08.001 Department Psychologie OPUS4-40626 misc Fischer, Martin H.; Sixtus, Elena; Göbel, Silke M. Commentary kein Abstract vorhanden 2015 3 Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe 420 urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-406260 Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät OPUS4-39092 unpublished Fischer, Martin H.; Sixtus, Elena; Göbel, Silke M. Commentary: A pointer about grasping numbers Lausanne Frontiers Research Foundation 2015 3 Frontiers in psychology 6 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00227 Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften