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Upshaw, Michaela B.; Bernier, Raphael A.; Sommerville, Jessica A. – Developmental Science, 2016
Research has established that the body is fundamentally involved in perception: bodily experience influences activation of the shared neural system underlying action perception and production during action observation, and bodily characteristics influence perception of the spatial environment. However, whether bodily characteristics influence…
Descriptors: Infants, Muscular Strength, Psychomotor Skills, Diagnostic Tests
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Moll, Henrike; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2007
We investigated how 14-month-old infants know what others know. In two studies, an infant played with each of two objects in turn while an experimenter was present. Then the experimenter left the room, and the infant played with a third object with an assistant. The experimenter returned, faced all three objects, and said excitedly "Look! Can you…
Descriptors: Infants, Toys, Investigations, Experiments
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Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Developmental Science, 2007
Some recent publications that explore the foundations of early language development are reviewed in this article. The review adopts the pivotal idea that infants' advancements are helped by the existence of different types of biases. The infant's discovery of the phonological properties of the language of the environment, as well as their learning…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Phonology, Cognitive Processes