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Cues to Individuation Facilitate 6-Month-Old Infants' Visual Short-Term Memory
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Cantrell, Lisa M.; Kanjlia, Shipra; Harrison, Mirjam; Luck, Steven J.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Infants' ability to perform visual short-term memory (VSTM) tasks develops rapidly between 6 and 8 months. Here we tested the hypothesis that infants' VSTM performance is influenced by their ability to individuate simultaneously presented objects. We used a "one-shot change detection task" to ask whether 6-month-old infants (N = 47)…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Visual Perception, Short Term Memory
Why Are Faces Denser in the Visual Experiences of Younger than Older Infants?
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Jayaraman, Swapnaa; Fausey, Caitlin M.; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Recent evidence from studies using head cameras suggests that the frequency of faces directly in front of infants "declines" over the first year and a half of life, a result that has implications for the development of and evolutionary constraints on face processing. Two experiments tested 2 opposing hypotheses about this observed…
Descriptors: Infants, Age Differences, Visual Perception, Hypothesis Testing
The Role of Lightness Contrast in Determining the Magnitude of the Delboeuf Illusion: A Rejoinder to Weintraub and Cooper
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Sjostrom, Kristen; Pollack, Robert H. – Developmental Psychology, 1972
Questions the conclusions described in PS 501 739. (MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Contrast, Figural Aftereffects