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Differential Contributions of Development and Learning to Infants' Knowledge of Object Continuity and Discontinuity
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Gredeback, Gustaf; Boyer, Ty W. – Child Development, 2013
Sixty infants divided evenly between 5 and 7 months of age were tested for their knowledge of object continuity versus discontinuity with a predictive tracking task. The stimulus event consisted of a moving ball that was briefly occluded for 20 trials. Both age groups predictively tracked the ball when it disappeared and reappeared via occlusion,…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Eye Movements, Prediction
Locomotor Status and the Development of Spatial Search Skills.
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Bai, Dina L.; Bertenthal, Bennett I. – Child Development, 1992
Investigated the possibility that previous reports of a relation between locomotor status and stage-4 object permanence performance could be generalized to performance on an object localization task. Findings suggest that the effects of locomotor experience on infants' search performance are quite specific and mediated by a variety of factors that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Object Permanence
Phenomenal Permanence and the Development of Predictive Tracking in Infancy
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Longo, Matthew R.; Kenny, Sarah – Child Development, 2007
The perceived spatiotemporal continuity of objects depends on the way they appear and disappear as they move in the spatial layout. This study investigated whether infants' predictive tracking of a briefly occluded object is sensitive to the manner by which the object disappears and reappears. Five-, 7-, and 9-month-old infants were shown a ball…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Infants, Visual Perception, Object Permanence
Development of Self-Recognition in the Infant
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Fischer, Kurt W. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Presents a study of the development of self-recognition in infants from 6 to 24 months of age. The development of self-recognition is compared to the development of object permanence. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior
Infants' Perception of Object Unity in Translating and Rotating Displays.
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Eizenman, Dara R.; Bertenthal, Bennett I. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Three experiments examined 4- and 6-month-olds' sensitivity to the unity of a partly occluded moving rod undergoing translation, rotation, or oscillation. Findings suggested that all types of common motion were not equivalent for specifying infants' perceptions of occluded objects. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants