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Loucks, Jeff; Sommerville, Jessica A. – Child Development, 2012
Recent evidence suggests adults and infants selectively attend to features of action, such as how a hand contacts an object. The current research investigated whether this bias stems from infants' processing of the functional consequences of grasps: understanding that different grasps afford different future actions. A habituation paradigm…
Descriptors: Role, Psychomotor Skills, Infants, Visual Perception
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Kimura, Atsushi; Wada, Yuji; Yang, Jiale; Otsuka, Yumiko; Dan, Ippeita; Masuda, Tomohiro; Kanazawa, So; Yamaguchi, Masami K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
We explored infants' ability to recognize the canonical colors of daily objects, including two color-specific objects (human face and fruit) and a non-color-specific object (flower), by using a preferential looking technique. A total of 58 infants between 5 and 8 months of age were tested with a stimulus composed of two color pictures of an object…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Visual Stimuli, Recognition (Psychology)
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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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Farroni, Teresa; Massaccesi, Stefano; Menon, Enrica; Johnson, Mark H. – Cognition, 2007
From birth, infants prefer to look at faces that engage them in direct eye contact. In adults, direct gaze is known to modulate the processing of faces, including the recognition of individuals. In the present study, we investigate whether direction of gaze has any effect on face recognition in four-month-old infants. Four-month infants were shown…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Recognition (Psychology)