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Loucks, Jeff; Sommerville, Jessica A. – Child Development, 2012
Recent evidence suggests adults and infants selectively attend to features of action, such as how a hand contacts an object. The current research investigated whether this bias stems from infants' processing of the functional consequences of grasps: understanding that different grasps afford different future actions. A habituation paradigm…
Descriptors: Role, Psychomotor Skills, Infants, Visual Perception
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Thompson, Lee A.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Tested infants at five and seven months of age for visual novelty preference. Tested the same infants at 12, 24, and 36 months by means of a battery of cognitive and language tests that compare novelty preference to general and specific cognitive abilities. Results support recent findings that infant novelty preference is predictive of later IQ.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference, Infants, Intelligence Quotient
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Examines, in three experiments, infant sensitivity at 20, 30, and 36 weeks of age to 3-dimensional structure of a human form specified through biomechanical motions. Findings are interpreted as suggesting that infants, by 36 weeks of age, are extracting fundamental properties necessary for interpreting a point-light display as a person. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Biomechanics, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference