Visuospatial perspective taking in people with Down syndrome

Arielle Hershkovich; Daria Lasc; Lauren Grove; Daniel Sullivan; Yingying Yang

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2023.104565

Visuospatial perspective taking in people with Down syndrome

Arielle Hershkovich, Daria Lasc, Lauren Grove, Daniel Sullivan, Yingying Yang

Psychology

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Visuospatial perspective taking (VPT) refers to the process of mentally representing a viewpoint different from one's own. It is related to mental rotation and theory of mind and helps to support some complex spatial activities such as wayfinding. Despite research advances in spatial cognition, little is known about VPT in people with Down syndrome (DS). Here, we examined VPT in people with DS. A total of 38 individuals with DS (aged 12–25 years old) and nonverbal ability-matched typically developing (TD) children (aged 4–9 years old) participated. They completed two VPT tasks: the classic Piagetian Three Mountains Task and a modified version of the “Dog Task” (Newcombe & Huttenlocher, 1992). For both groups, the Three Mountains Task was more difficult than the Dog Task, implying the impact of task complexity on assessing VPT. However, the overall performance did not differ between the TD and DS groups in either VPT task. Implications of the results were discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	104565
Journal	Research in Developmental Disabilities
Volume	139
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2023.104565
State	Published - Aug 2023

Keywords

Down syndrome
Egocentric
Reference frames
Three Mountains task
Visuospatial perspective taking

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