Hello Antonio,

Check Laura Piccardi's works. There are also interesting papers from Lavenex and Lavenex. As an example:

- Lavenex, P., & Lavenex, P. B. (2013). Building hippocampal circuits to learn and remember: Insights into the development of human memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 254, 8–21.

- Piccardi, L., et al. 2014. Development of navigational working memory: evidence from 6- to 10-year-old children. Br J Dev Psychol. 2014 Jun;32(2):205-17.

Good luck!

There is a whole literature on this. Before you post a general question like this, I really suggest you do a search on Google Scholar. You might have to play with the search terms, but if you start with the ones in your question you will definitely get a lot of hits.

Please check out a lot of relevant articles from Elizabeth Spelke's lab at Harvard, for example this 1996 paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027796007147

There is a US Science of Learning Center (Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center) in which most of the investigators study some aspect of spatial processing in children: http://sites.temple.edu/risc/projects/navigation/.

Also, Lynn Nadel and colleagues did a series of spatial learning and memory studies in children that were analogous to the sorts of studies done in rodents. Many of these were done in the 1990's.

Good luck with your work!

I would suggest some of the work done by Janellen Huttenlocher, Nora Newcombe, Jodie Plumert, Alycia Hund, or Elisabeth Sandberg. If you are interested in reorientation, then some of the work by Alexandra Twyman or Marko Nardini may be of interest. For example:

Huttenlocher, J., Newcombe, N., & Sandberg, E.H. (1994). The coding of spatial location in young children. Cognitive Psychology, 27, 115-147.

Plumert, J.M., & Hund, A. (2001). The development of memory for location: What role do spatial prototypes play? Child Development, 72, 370-384.

Twyman, A., Friedman, A., & Spetch, M.L. (2007). Penetrating the geometric module: Catalyzing children's use of landmarks. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1523-1530.

There are, of course, many other publications by these researchers in this area, but these are some good suggestions to begin with, and you should be able to choose which of their other works look most relevant to your own research. I would also suggest the book "Making Space: The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning" by Nora S. Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher, if your library happens to have a copy.

Hope this helps!