Language, space, and the development of cognitive flexibility in humans: the case of two spatial memory tasks.

By Linda Hermer-Vazquez, A. Moffet, Paul Munkholm, P. Munkholm. 2001

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Reorientation in a rhombic environment: No evidence for an encapsulated geometric module (2005, methodology): “In small locomotor spaces, 4-year-olds rely solely on geometric information (Hermer-Vazquez et al., 2001).”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “First, the age at which children begin to use landmarks to reorient highly correlates with their accurate production of the phrases left of X and right of X (Hermer-Vasquez et al., 2001).”
Vygotskian Autotelic Artificial Intelligence: Language and Culture Internalization for Human-Like AI (2022, background): “103 Language indeed contains cues about how to decompose tasks into sub-tasks, i.e. how to generate good plans .”