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Direct linkSaxe, Rebecca; Tzelnic, Tania; Carey, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Preverbal infants can represent the causal structure of events, including distinguishing the agentive and receptive roles and categorizing entities according to stable causal dispositions. This study investigated how infants combine these 2 kinds of causal inference. In Experiments 1 and 2, 9.5-month-olds used the position of a human hand or a…
Descriptors: Toys, Motion, Infant Behavior, Concept Formation
Needham, Amy; Cantlon, Jessica F.; Ormsbee Holley, Susan M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2006
The current research investigates infants' perception of a novel object from a category that is familiar to young infants: key rings. We ask whether experiences obtained outside the lab would allow young infants to parse the visible portions of a partly occluded key ring display into one single unit, presumably as a result of having categorized it…
Descriptors: Infants, Investigations, Visual Perception, Classification
