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Bremner, J. Gavin; Johnson, Scott P.; Slater, Alan; Mason, Uschi; Foster, Kirsty; Cheshire, Andrea; Spring, Joanne – Child Development, 2005
When an object moves behind an occluder and re-emerges, 4-month-old infants perceive trajectory continuity only when the occluder is narrow, raising the question of whether time or distance out of sight is the important constraining variable. One hundred and forty 4-month-olds were tested in five experiments aimed to disambiguate time and distance…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Perceptual Development, Visual Perception
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Moore, M. Keith; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Fourteen-month-old infants saw an object hidden inside a container and were removed from the disappearance locale for 24 hr. Upon their return, they searched correctly for the hidden object, demonstrating object permanence and long-term memory. Control infants who saw no disappearance did not search. In Experiment 2, infants returned to see the…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Long Term Memory, Infants, Infant Behavior
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Eizenman, Dara R.; Bertenthal, Bennett I. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Three experiments examined 4- and 6-month-olds' sensitivity to the unity of a partly occluded moving rod undergoing translation, rotation, or oscillation. Findings suggested that all types of common motion were not equivalent for specifying infants' perceptions of occluded objects. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants
Gallas, Howard B.; Lewis, Michael – 1977
This study explored the relationship between the mother-infant interaction and the concurrent perceptual-cognitive and intellectual status of the infant. One hundred and eight-nine 12-week-old infants were given a battery of perceptual-cognitive tasks, including the Mental Developmental Index (MDI) of the Bayley Scales, the Corman-Escalona Scales…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Infants