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Marcovitch, Stuart; Clearfield, Melissa W.; Swingler, Margaret; Calkins, Susan D.; Bell, Martha Ann – Infant and Child Development, 2016
In the first year of life, the ability to search for hidden objects is an indicator of object permanence and, when multiple locations are involved, executive function (i.e. inhibition, cognitive flexibility and working memory). The current study was designed to examine attentional predictors of search in 5-month-old infants (as measured by the…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention Control, Puppetry, Performance
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Saiki, Jun; Miyatsuji, Hirofumi – Cognition, 2007
Memory for feature binding comprises a key ingredient in coherent object representations. Previous studies have been equivocal about human capacity for objects in the visual working memory. To evaluate memory for feature binding, a type identification paradigm was devised and used with a multiple-object permanence tracking task. Using objects…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Models, Object Permanence
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Lingle, Kathleen M.; Lingle, John H. – Child Development, 1981
Investigates the degree to which object familiarity and motivational factors influence infants' search behavior in an object-permanence test. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Measures (Individuals), Motivation
Lingle, Kathleen M.; Lingle, John H. – 1978
A study was conducted to investigate the degree to which both object familiarity and motivational factors influence infants' search behavior in an object permanence test. Infants' search behavior for an unfamiliar test object was compared with search behavior for (a) an experientially familiar object that each infant had played with daily for a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Examiners, Infant Behavior