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Shinskey, Jeanne L. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
In manual search tasks designed to assess infants' knowledge of the object concept, why does search for objects hidden by darkness precede search for objects hidden by visible occluders by several months? A graded representations account explains this decalage by proposing that the conflicting visual input from occluders directly competes with…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Cues, Infants, Concept Formation
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Nielsen, L. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1991
Twenty congenitally blind infants were placed in a panelled framework with various tactile and auditory objects for 20-minute periods. Results indicated that subjects improved their performance of spatially related activities when exposed to an environment helping them understand the concept and permanence of objects and the production of…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Blindness, Concept Formation, Congenital Impairments