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Sirois, Sylvain; Jackson, Iain R. – Infancy, 2012
This paper examines the relative merits of looking time and pupil diameter measures in the study of early cognitive abilities of infants. Ten-month-old infants took part in a modified version of the classic drawbridge experiment used to study object permanence (Baillargeon, Spelke, & Wasserman, 1985). The study involved a factorial design where…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Cognitive Ability, Eye Movements
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Wahl, Sebastian; Michel, Christine; Pauen, Sabina; Hoehl, Stefanie – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study investigates the effects of attention-guiding stimuli on 4-month-old infants' object processing. In the human head condition, infants saw a person turning her head and eye gaze towards or away from objects. When presented with the objects again, infants showed increased attention in terms of longer looking time measured by eye…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Infants, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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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