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Decalage in Infants' Knowledge about Occlusion and Containment Events: Converging Evidence from Action Tasks
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Hespos, Susan J.; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognition, 2006
In the present research, 6-month-old infants consistently searched for a tall toy behind a tall as opposed to a short occluder. However, when the same toy was hidden inside a tall or a short container, only older, 7.5-month-old infants searched for the tall toy inside the tall container. These and control results (1) confirm previous…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Object Permanence