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Shuwairi, Sarah M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Can infants use interposition and line junction cues to infer three-dimensional (3D) structure? Previous work has shown that in a task that required 4-month-olds to discriminate between static two-dimensional (2D) pictures of possible and impossible cubes, infants exhibited a spontaneous preference for displays of the impossible cube but left open…
Descriptors: Infants, Cues, Visual Discrimination, Visual Stimuli
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Saxe, Rebecca; Tzelnic, Tania; Carey, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Preverbal infants can represent the causal structure of events, including distinguishing the agentive and receptive roles and categorizing entities according to stable causal dispositions. This study investigated how infants combine these 2 kinds of causal inference. In Experiments 1 and 2, 9.5-month-olds used the position of a human hand or a…
Descriptors: Toys, Motion, Infant Behavior, Concept Formation