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Lejeune, Fleur; Marcus, Leila; Berne-Audeoud, Frederique; Streri, Arlette; Debillon, Thierry; Gentaz, Edouard – Child Development, 2012
This study investigated the ability of preterm infants to learn an object shape with one hand and discriminate a new shape in the opposite hand (without visual control). Twenty-four preterm infants between 33 and 34 + 6 gestational weeks received a tactile habituation task with either their right or left hand followed by a tactile discrimination…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Habituation, Learning Processes, Object Permanence
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Xu, 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
Hupp, Susan C.; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Journal of the Association for the Severely Handicapped (JASH), 1981
The learning of categories by six severely handicapped students (8 to 18 years old) was measured within the context of manual sign training. As expected, results supported the best example theory of categorization which suggests that some objects are more representative of their category than others. Implications for classroom material selection…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Corrigan, Roberta – Journal of Child Language, 1978
A longitudinal study of three children examined the relation between object permanence and language development. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research