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Jeanne L. Shinskey; Yuko Munakata – Developmental Science, 2010
Novelty seeking is viewed as adaptive, and novelty preferences in infancy predict cognitive performance into adulthood. Yet 7-month-olds prefer familiar stimuli to novel ones when searching for hidden objects, in contrast to their strong novelty preferences with visible objects (Shinskey & Munakata, 2005). According to a graded representations…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Stimuli, Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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O'Hearn, Kirsten; Hoffman, James E.; Landau, Barbara – Developmental Science, 2010
The ability to track moving objects, a crucial skill for mature performance on everyday spatial tasks, has been hypothesized to require a specialized mechanism that may be available in infancy (i.e. indexes). Consistent with the idea of specialization, our previous work showed that object tracking was more impaired than a matched spatial memory…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Object Permanence, Age, Infants
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Blaye, Agnes; Jacques, Sophie – Developmental Science, 2009
The current study evaluated the relative roles of conceptual knowledge and executive control on the development of "categorical flexibility," the ability to switch between simultaneously available but conflicting categorical representations of an object. Experiment 1 assessed conceptual knowledge and executive control together; Experiment 2…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Preschool Children, Cognitive Processes, Classification
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Cheries, Erik W.; Mitroff, Stephen R.; Wynn, Karen; Scholl, Brian J. – Developmental Science, 2008
A critical challenge for visual perception is to represent objects as the same persisting individuals over time and motion. Across several areas of cognitive science, researchers have identified cohesion as among the most important theoretical principles of object persistence: An object must maintain a single bounded contour over time. Drawing…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Persistence, Infants, Visual Perception
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Okamoto-Barth, Sanae; Tomonaga, Masaki; Tanaka, Masayuki; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro – Developmental Science, 2008
The use of gaze shifts as social cues has various evolutionary advantages. To investigate the developmental processes of this ability, we conducted an object-choice task by using longitudinal methods with infant chimpanzees tested from 8 months old until 3 years old. The experimenter used one of six gestures towards a cup concealing food; tapping,…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Cues, Behavioral Science Research, Infants
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Mounoud, Pierre; Duscherer, Katia; Moy, Guenael; Perraudin, Sandrine – Developmental Science, 2007
Two experiments explored the existence and the development of relations between action representations and object representations. A priming paradigm was used in which participants viewed an action pantomime followed by the picture of a tool, the tool being either associated or unassociated with the preceding action. Overall, we observed that the…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Pantomime, Infants, Young Adults
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Shutts, Kristin; Keen, Rachel; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2006
Previous research has shown that young children have difficulty searching for a hidden object whose location depends on the position of a partly visible physical barrier. Across four experiments, we tested whether children's search errors are affected by two variables that influence adults' object-directed attention: object boundaries and…
Descriptors: Structural Elements (Construction), Proximity, Object Permanence, Toddlers
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Baillargeon, Renee – Developmental Science, 2004
Research over the past 20 years has revealed that even very young infants possess expectations about physical events, and that these expectations undergo significant developments during the first year of life. In this article, I first review some of this research, focusing on infants' expectations about occlusion, containment, and covering events,…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Toddlers, Child Development
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Johnson, Kathy E.; Younger, Barbara A.; Furrer, Stephanie D. – Developmental Science, 2005
While very young children's understanding of objects as symbols for other entities has been the focus of much investigation, very little is known concerning the emergence of comprehension for symbolic relations among actions modeled with toy replicas and their real counterparts. We used videotaped depictions of real actions in a preferential…
Descriptors: Toys, Concept Formation, Infants, Object Permanence