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Direct linkJeanne 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)
Song, Hyun-joo; Baillargeon, Renee; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2005
The present research investigated whether 13.5-month-old infants would attribute to an actor a disposition to perform a recurring action, and would then use this information to predict which of two new objects--one that could be used to perform the action and one that could not--the actor would grasp next. During familiarization, the infants…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Cognitive Ability, Familiarity, Behavioral Science Research
