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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