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Peer reviewedXu, Fei; Carey, Susan; Welch, Jenny – Cognition, 1999
Adult and 10- and 12-month olds participated in two experiments to determine reliance of infants on object-kind information in solving problems of object individuation. Findings converge with those of object-first hypothesis of developmental course of object individuation. Findings suggest that young infants may represent one concept as criteria…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Habituation
Peer reviewedCarey, Susan; Xu, Fei – Cognition, 2001
Examines evidence that the research community studying infants' object concept and the community concerned with adult object-based attention have been studying the same natural kind. Maintains that the discovery that the object representations of young infants are the same as the object files of mid-level visual cognition has implications for both…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Attention Control, Cognitive Development
