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Paulus, Markus; Hauf, Petra – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2012
Research in the past decades has investigated the time course of the acquisition of physical knowledge in early development in much detail. However, few is known about the motives that actually lead infants to interact with the objects of their physical world. The research presented here investigated in two experiments if 11-month-old infants'…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Object Manipulation, Experiments
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Deligianni, Fani; Senju, Atsushi; Gergely, Gyorgy; Csibra, Gergely – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The current study tested whether the purely amodal cue of contingency elicits orientation following behavior in 8-month-old infants. We presented 8-month-old infants with automated objects without human features that did or did not react contingently to the infants' fixations recorded by an eye tracker. We found that an object's occasional…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Eye Movements, Interaction