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Kagan, Jerome – Child Development, 2008
The balance between the preservation of early cognitive functions and serious transformations on these functions shifts across time. Piaget's writings, which favored transformations, are being replaced by writings that emphasize continuities between select cognitive functions of infants and older children. The claim that young infants possess…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Developmental Stages, Inferences
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Wishart, J. G. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2007
Background: Social understanding is often thought to be relatively "protected" in children with Down's syndrome (DS) and to underlie the outgoing personality characteristically attributed to them. This paper draws together findings from our studies of behaviours during object concept testing, generally considered a theoretically "pure" measure of…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Nonverbal Communication, Social Cognition, Cognitive Ability