Improving spatial perception in 5-yr.-old Spanish children.
Assimilation of distance perception was studied in 70 Spanish primary school children. This assimilation involves the generation of projective images which are acquired through two mechanisms. One mechanism is spatial perception, wherein perceptual processes develop ensuring successful immersion in space and the acquisition of visual cues which a person may use to interpret images seen in the distance. The other mechanism is movement through space so that these images are produced. The present study evaluated the influence on improvements in spatial perception of using increasingly larger spaces for training sessions within a motor skills program. Visual parameters were measured in relation to the capture and tracking of moving objects or ocular motility and speed of detection or visual reaction time. Analysis showed that for the group trained in increasingly larger spaces, ocular motility and visual reaction time were significantly improved during. different phases of the program.
Jiménez
Andrés Canto
AC
Departamento de Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plastica y Corporal Facultad de Educación y Humanidades, Universidad de Granada, Campus Melilla, Spain.
Sicilia
Antonio Oña
AO
Vera
Juan Granda
JG
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004215:Distance Perception / Q000502:physiology; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology; D011214:Practice, Psychological; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013030:Spain; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*