This study examined the influence of
the surrounding environment on children’s cognition.
Key findings include:
- They
performed visuospatial cognitive tasks in two environment conditions.
- The
visual surrounding environment was manipulated: high- vs. low-load
environment.
- Children’s
cognitive performance was reduced in the high-load visual environment.
Overall, the results
suggested that the high-load visual environment affected children’s cognitive
performance given that children performed better in the low-load visual
environment. Understanding the impact that a visually rich surrounding
environment has on children’s cognitive processes that support more complex
ones is important to support recommendations on how the environment should be
organized to foster better daily activities.
Rodrigues, P. F. S., & Pandeirada, J. N.
S. (2018). When
visual stimulation of the surrounding environment affects children’s cognitive
performance. Journal of Experimental
Child Psychology, 176, 140-149. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.014
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