Encouraging 5-year olds to attend to landmarks: A way to improve children’s wayfinding strategies in a virtual environment.

Wayfinding can be defined as the ability to learn and remember a route through an environment. Previous researchers have shown that young children have difficulties remembering routes. However, very few researchers have considered how to improve young children’s wayfinding abilities. Therefore, we i...

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Main Authors: Jamie eLingwood, Mark eBlades, Emily Kate Farran, Yannick eCourbois, Danielle eMatthews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00174/full