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Auditory and Visual Category Learning in Children and Adults
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Roark, Casey L.; Lescht, Erica; Hampton Wray, Amanda; Chandrasekaran, Bharath – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Categories are fundamental to everyday life and the ability to learn new categories is relevant across the lifespan. Categories are ubiquitous across modalities, supporting complex processes such as object recognition and speech perception. Prior work has proposed that different categories may engage learning systems with unique developmental…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Adults, Learning Modalities
Cross-Modal and Intramodal Transfer as Predictors of Mental Development in Full-Term and Preterm Infants.
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Rose, Susan A.; Wallace, Ina F. – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Full-term and preterm infants who had participated in studies of cross-modal and intramodal transfer at 12 months of age were seen at older ages to assess the predictive validity of these early measures for later cognition. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Infants, Learning Modalities, Longitudinal Studies
Group Differences in the Mutual Gaze of Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes)
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Bard, Kim A.; Myowa-Yamakoshi, Masako; Tomonaga, Masaki; Tanaka, Masayuki; Costall, Alan; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro – Developmental Psychology, 2005
A comparative developmental framework was used to determine whether mutual gaze is unique to humans and, if not, whether common mechanisms support the development of mutual gaze in chimpanzees and humans. Mother-infant chimpanzees engaged in approximately 17 instances of mutual gaze per hour. Mutual gaze occurred in positive, nonagonistic…
Descriptors: Primatology, Nonverbal Communication, Animal Behavior, Motor Reactions
Effects of Visual, Haptic, and Manipulatory Experiences on Infants' Visual Recognition Memory of Objects.
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Gottfried, Allen W.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Infants ranging from 6 to 12 months were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) allowed to look at a specified object, (2) allowed to look at and manipulate it, or (3) allowed to look at the object and to manipulate the transparent box in which it was encased. (JMB)
Descriptors: Infants, Learning Modalities, Memory, Object Manipulation