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Wood, Justin N.; Wood, Samantha M. W. – Developmental Science, 2017
How long does it take for a newborn to recognize an object? Adults can recognize objects rapidly, but measuring object recognition speed in newborns has not previously been possible. Here we introduce an automated controlled-rearing method for measuring the speed of newborn object recognition in controlled visual worlds. We raised newborn chicks…
Descriptors: Infants, Animals, Recognition (Psychology), Vision
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Hendrickson, Kristi; Mitsven, Samantha; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Zesiger, Pascal; Friend, Margaret – Developmental Science, 2015
The goal of the current study is to assess the temporal dynamics of vision and action to evaluate the underlying word representations that guide infants' responses. Sixteen-month-old infants participated in a two-alternative forced-choice word-picture matching task. We conducted a moment-by-moment analysis of looking and reaching behaviors as they…
Descriptors: Infants, Vision, Infant Behavior, Learning Activities
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Sodian, Beate; Thoermer, Claudia; Metz, Ulrike – Developmental Science, 2007
Twelve- and 14-month-old infants' ability to represent another person's visual perspective (Level-1 visual perspective taking) was studied in a looking-time paradigm. Fourteen-month-olds looked longer at a person reaching for and grasping a new object when the old goal-object was visible than when it was invisible to the person (but visible to the…
Descriptors: Vision, Perspective Taking, Infants, Visual Stimuli