Young Children’s Representation of Locations in a Series: A Front-Back Representation or an Ordinal Representation?

Previous research has found that 3- to 5-year-old children could encode and retrieve a target location in a two-location series. In a paradigm of running two symmetrical railcars on a circular track, the study suggested that children used front-back array to help coding. That is, children at this age code the railcar running in the front of another as “the location in the front” and the railcar running in the back of another as “the location in...