Exploring the potential relations between a novel visual alphabet and preschoolers' spatial skills
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
The Pattern Alphabet (pABC) organizes 32 icons into four categories that illustrate natural growth and movement (Growth), Geometry, Symmetry, and shapes that enable the creation of new shapes (Building Blocks). We presented 4- to 5-year-olds with a pABC matching task, as well as tasks that measured their spatial and mathematical skills. Results from this exploratory research found that children successfully matched most pABC icons with colored photographs of objects in the world that contained e