The ability to encode space is a crucial aspect of interacting with the external world. Therefore, this ability appears to be fundamental for the correct development of the capacity to integrate different spatial reference frames. The spatial reference frame seems to be present in all the sensory modalities. However, it has been demonstrated that different sensory modalities follow various developmental courses. Nevertheless, to date these courses have been investigated only in people with sensory impairments, where there is a possible bias due to compensatory strategies and it is complicated to assess the exact age when these skills emerge. For these reasons, we investigated the development of the allocentric frame in the auditory domain in a group of typically developing children aged 6–10 years. To do so, we used an auditory Simon task, a paradigm that involves implicit spatial processing, and we asked children to perform the task in both the uncrossed and crossed hands postures. We demonstrated that the crossed hands posture affected the performance only in younger children (6–7 years), whereas at 10 years of age children performed as adults and were not affected by such posture. Moreover, we found that this task’s performance correlated with age and developmental differences in spatial abilities. Our results support the hypothesis that auditory spatial cognition’s developmental course is similar to the visual modality development as reported in the literature.

编码空间的能力是与外部世界互动的一个关键方面。因此，这种能力似乎是正确发展整合不同空间参考系的能力的基础。空间参考系似乎存在于所有感官模式中。然而，已经证明不同的感官方式遵循不同的发展过程。然而，迄今为止，这些课程仅针对有感官障碍的人进行了研究，由于补偿策略可能存在偏差，并且评估这些技能出现的确切年龄是很复杂的。出于这些原因，我们调查了一组 6-10 岁正常发育儿童听觉域中异中心框架的发展。为此，我们使用了听觉西蒙任务，一个涉及内隐空间处理的范式，我们要求孩子们以不交叉和交叉的双手姿势执行任务。我们证明，交叉手的姿势仅影响年幼儿童（6-7 岁）的表现，而 10 岁儿童表现得像成年人一样，不受这种姿势的影响。此外，我们发现这项任务的表现与年龄和空间能力的发展差异相关。我们的结果支持听觉空间认知的发展过程与文献中报道的视觉模式发展相似的假设。我们证明，交叉手的姿势仅影响年幼儿童（6-7 岁）的表现，而 10 岁的儿童表现得像成年人一样，不受这种姿势的影响。此外，我们发现这项任务的表现与年龄和空间能力的发展差异相关。我们的结果支持听觉空间认知的发展过程与文献中报道的视觉模式发展相似的假设。我们证明，交叉手的姿势仅影响年幼儿童（6-7 岁）的表现，而 10 岁儿童表现得像成年人一样，不受这种姿势的影响。此外，我们发现这项任务的表现与年龄和空间能力的发展差异相关。我们的结果支持听觉空间认知的发展过程与文献中报道的视觉模式发展相似的假设。