Kosslyn S M, Margolis J A, Barrett A M, Goldknopf E J, Daly P F
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Child Dev. 1990 Aug;61(4):995-1010.
Age differences were examined in 4 aspects of visual mental imagery, namely, image generation, maintenance, scanning, and rotation. The results suggested that one or more distinct processes are used to carry out each aspect of imagery, and that this is true for 5-year-olds, 8-year-olds, 14-year-olds, and adults. There was no evidence that younger children have fewer processing components, which become differentiated into more specialized subsystems over age. In addition, the results suggested that younger children are relatively poor at scanning, rotating, and generating objects in images, but are relatively good at maintaining images.
研究了视觉心理意象四个方面的年龄差异，即意象生成、意象维持、意象扫描和意象旋转。结果表明，执行意象的每个方面都使用了一个或多个不同的过程，5岁儿童、8岁儿童、14岁儿童和成年人都是如此。没有证据表明年幼儿童的加工成分较少，这些成分会随着年龄增长分化为更专门的子系统。此外，结果表明年幼儿童在扫描、旋转和生成图像中的物体方面相对较差，但在维持图像方面相对较好。
