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Peer reviewedAguiar, Andrea; Baillargeon, Renee – Child Development, 1998
Three experiments examined whether 8.5-month-olds considered an object's width and compressibility when determining whether it could be inserted into a container. Results suggested that infants realized that large balls could fit into large but not small containers, whereas small balls could fit into both containers. Infants understood that large…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Tactile Stimuli, Tactual Perception
