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Direct linkTess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
Zheng, Annie; Church, Jessica A. – Child Development, 2021
Children perform worse than adults on tests of cognitive flexibility, which is a component of executive function. To assess what aspects of a cognitive flexibility task (cued switching) children have difficulty with, investigators tested where eye gaze diverged over age. Eye-tracking was used as a proxy for attention during the preparatory period…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Executive Function, Cognitive Tests, Cognitive Development
Pathman, Thanujeni; Ghetti, Simona – Child Development, 2014
Temporal memory in 7-year-olds, 10-year-olds, and young adults (N = 78) was examined introducing a novel eye-movement paradigm. Participants learned object sequences and were tested under three conditions: temporal order, temporal context, and recognition. Age-related improvements in accuracy were found across conditions; accuracy in the temporal…
Descriptors: Time, Memory, Children, Young Adults
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
Low, Jason – Child Development, 2010
Three studies were carried out to investigate sentential complements being the critical device that allows for false-belief understanding in 3- and 4-year-olds (N = 102). Participants across studies accurately gazed in anticipation of a character's mistaken belief in a predictive looking task despite erring on verbal responses for direct…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Task Analysis, Eye Movements
Johnson, Kerri L.; Lurye, Leah E.; Tassinary, Louis G. – Child Development, 2010
Two studies examined how children between ages 4 and 6 use body shape (i.e., the waist-to-hip-ratio [WHR]) for sex categorization. In Study 1 (N = 73), 5- and 6-year-olds, but not 4-year-olds, selected bodies with increasingly discrepant WHRs to be "most like a man" and "most like a woman." Similarly, sex category judgments made by 5- and…
Descriptors: Cues, Eye Movements, Preschool Children, Classification
Hoehl, Stefanie; Reid, Vincent M.; Parise, Eugenio; Handl, Andrea; Palumbo, Letizia; Striano, Tricia – Child Development, 2009
The importance of eye gaze as a means of communication is indisputable. However, there is debate about whether there is a dedicated neural module, which functions as an eye gaze detector and when infants are able to use eye gaze cues in a referential way. The application of neuroscience methodologies to developmental psychology has provided new…
Descriptors: Child Development, Infants, Cues, Eye Movements
Yoon, Jennifer M. D.; Johnson, Susan C. – Child Development, 2009
To test the hypothesis that biological motion perception is developmentally integrated with important social cognitive abilities, 12-month-olds (N = 36) were shown a display of a human point-light figure turning to observe a target. Infants spontaneously and reliably followed the figure's "gaze" despite the absence of familiar and socially…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Motion, Cognitive Ability, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedHaith, Marshall M.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Findings indicate that infants can detect regularity in spatiotemporal series; will develop expectancies for events in the series; and will act on the basis of those expectancies even when their actions have no effect on the stimulus events. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Expectation, Eye Movements
Peer reviewedFarnham-Diggory, S.; Gregg, Lee W. – Child Development, 1975
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedFernald, Anne; Swingley, Daniel; Pinto, John P. – Child Development, 2001
Two experiments tracked infants' eye movements to examine use of word-initial information to understand fluent speech. Results indicated that 21- and 18-month-olds recognized partial words as quickly and reliably as whole words. Infants' productive vocabulary and reaction time were related to word recognition accuracy. Results show that…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Eye Movements
