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Direct linkWang, Su-hua; Baillargeon, Renee; Brueckner, Laura – Cognition, 2004
The present research examined alternative accounts of prior violation-of-expectation (VOE) reports that young infants can represent and reason about hidden objects. According to these accounts, young infants' apparent success in these VOE tasks reflects only novelty and familiarity preferences induced by the habituation or familiarization trials…
Descriptors: Infants, Thinking Skills, Expectation, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Bonatti, Luca; Frot, Emmanuel; Zangl, Renate; Mehler, Jacques – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
How do infants individuate and track objects, and among them objects belonging to their species, when they can only rely on information about the properties of those objects? We propose the Human First Hypothesis (HFH), which posits that infants possess information about their conspecifics and use it to identify and count objects. F. Xu and S.…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Psychology, Identification (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
