Courbois, Y., Mengue-Topio, H., Blades, M. et al. (2 more authors) (2019) Description of routes in people with intellectual disability. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 124 (2). pp. 116-130. ISSN 1944-7558
Abstract
The ability to describe routes was assessed in participants with intellectual disability (ID) and participants without ID matched on chronological age (CA) or on mental age (MA). In two experiments, participants learned a route through a virtual environment until they reached a learning criterion. Then, they were asked to externalise their spatial knowledge in a verbal description task, a landmark recognition task or a map completion task. Results revealed that participants with ID mainly described the route as a succession of actions (“turn left”) while participants in the CA group prescribed actions referring to a landmark (“turn left at the swing”). Yet, results from the other tasks showed that individuals with ID had good landmark knowledge of the environment.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | wayfinding; spatial knowledge; verbal description; intellectual disability |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2018 11:46 |
Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2019 17:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1352/1944-7558-124.2.116 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:137132 |