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Woods, Rebecca J.; Wilcox, Teresa – Developmental Psychology, 2013
A hierarchical progression in infants' ability to use surface features, such as color, as a basis for object individuation in the first year has been well established (Tremoulet, Leslie, & Hall, 2000; Wilcox, 1999). There is evidence, however, that infants' sensitivity to surface features can be increased through multisensory (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Infants, Human Posture, Motor Development, Object Manipulation
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Bremner, Andrew J.; Mareschal, Denis; Lloyd-Fox, Sarah; Spence, Charles – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
Two experiments investigated infants' ability to localize tactile sensations in peripersonal space. Infants aged 10 months (Experiment 1) and 6.5 months (Experiment 2) were presented with vibrotactile stimuli unpredictably to either hand while they adopted either a crossed- or uncrossed-hands posture. At 6.5 months, infants' responses were…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Infants, Spatial Ability, Experiments