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Bremner, J. Gavin; Slater, Alan M.; Johnson, Scott P.; Mason, Uschi C.; Spring, Jo – Child Development, 2012
Young infants perceive an object's trajectory as continuous across occlusion provided the temporal or spatial gap in perception is small. In 3 experiments involving 72 participants the authors investigated the effects of different forms of auditory information on 4-month-olds' perception of trajectory continuity. Provision of dynamic auditory…
Descriptors: Infants, Auditory Stimuli, Perception, Child Development
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Black, Kathryn Norcross; Roberts, Gail C. – Child Development, 1972
Purpose of the study was to determine whether a name for a toy affects an infant's attentional preference for a toy and whether this process is related to the infant's concept of subject permanence. (Authors)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Attention, Child Language, Infants
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Pipp-Siegel, Sandra; Foltz, Carol – Child Development, 1997
Two studies tested whether 12- and 24-month olds' self-knowledge differed from their knowledge of others (mother or inanimate object), or whether toddlers' knowledge of persons (self and mother) differed from knowledge of objects. Results showed that 12-month olds were more sensitive than older toddlers to perceptual features of objects. Data were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Mothers, Object Permanence