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Shinskey, Jeanne L.; Jachens, Liza J. – Child Development, 2014
Infants' transfer of information from pictures to objects was tested by familiarizing 9-month-olds (N = 31) with either a color or black-and-white photograph of an object and observing their preferential reaching for the real target object versus a distractor. One condition tested object recognition by keeping both objects visible, and the…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Photography, Color
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Wilcox, Teresa; Woods, Rebecca; Chapa, Catherine; McCurry, Sarah – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Visual Environment, Visual Perception