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Cantrell, Lisa M.; Kanjlia, Shipra; Harrison, Mirjam; Luck, Steven J.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Infants' ability to perform visual short-term memory (VSTM) tasks develops rapidly between 6 and 8 months. Here we tested the hypothesis that infants' VSTM performance is influenced by their ability to individuate simultaneously presented objects. We used a "one-shot change detection task" to ask whether 6-month-old infants (N = 47)…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Visual Perception, Short Term Memory
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vanMarle, Kristy – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013
Previous research has shown indirectly that infants may use two different mechanisms-an object tracking system and an analog magnitude mechanism--to represent small (less than 4) and large (greater than or equal to 4) numbers of objects, respectively. The current study directly tested this hypothesis in an ordinal choice task by presenting 10- to…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Psychology, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
Luria, A. R.; Yudovich, F. Ia. – 1971
The hypothesis, that the importance of language to mankind lies not so much in the fact that it is the means by which we cooperate and communicate with each other as in the fact that it enables each of us, as individuals and in cooperation, to represent the world to ourselves as we encounter it, is presented. In infancy, the representation is made…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes