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Re:The Power of Language by uncompetence on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @04:41PM (#4134047)
"For example, infants don't have spacial awareness, or understand how objects can be relative to each other, until they learn the words for describing relativity."

Where's the citation on this?

Re:The Power of Language by cafard on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @04:48PM (#4134087)
Indeed. Infants can home in on a breast or a bottle from the get-go; babies are crawling by about 6 months, and walking at about 1 year. They are able to grasp and manipulate objects around six months, I believe. All these seem to imply spatial awareness.
Re:The Power of Language by wvenable on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @05:48PM (#4134336)
Quick googling and I didn't find the article but I have read it. Maybe someone can find the magic keywords.

The crux of the study was that children who don't know the words left and right don't appear to have an innate ability to understand the relative positions of objects related to other objects. Children with the language for left and right can remember relative positioning but children without those words do not.