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Direct linkShutts, Kristin; Keen, Rachel; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2006
Previous research has shown that young children have difficulty searching for a hidden object whose location depends on the position of a partly visible physical barrier. Across four experiments, we tested whether children's search errors are affected by two variables that influence adults' object-directed attention: object boundaries and…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), Proximity, Object Permanence, Toddlers
