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Infants' Ability To Use Object Kind Information for Object Individuation.
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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
Object Permanence in Young Infants: Further Evidence.
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Baillargeon, Renee; DeVos, Julie – Child Development, 1991
Observed the reactions of 3.5-month-old infants looking at a carrot that should have but did not appear in a window after passing behind a screen. The results of this and several similar experiments indicated that 3.5-month-old infants are able to represent and reason about hidden objects. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Perception of Object Unity in 2-Month-Old Infants.
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Johnson, Scott P.; Aslin, Richard N. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined perception of object unity in partial occlusion in 72 infants. Recorded how long subjects looked at a display of complete and incomplete rods. In test and control conditions, infants looked longer at broken rods than at complete rods, suggesting that infants' cognitive, visual, or attentional skills may be insufficient to support…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes