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Peer reviewedSubbotskii, E. V. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
Examines perceptions of adults compared with preschool children in assuming object permanence or discontinuity of existence when an object is removed from their immediate perceptual field. Results showed that a belief in the possibility of the discontinuity of material objects is not unique to the minds of preschool children but can also be…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedJohnson, Scott P.; Aslin, Richard N. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined perception of object unity in partial occlusion in 72 infants. Recorded how long subjects looked at a display of complete and incomplete rods. In test and control conditions, infants looked longer at broken rods than at complete rods, suggesting that infants' cognitive, visual, or attentional skills may be insufficient to support…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
