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Cheries, Erik W.; Mitroff, Stephen R.; Wynn, Karen; Scholl, Brian J. – Developmental Science, 2008
A critical challenge for visual perception is to represent objects as the same persisting individuals over time and motion. Across several areas of cognitive science, researchers have identified cohesion as among the most important theoretical principles of object persistence: An object must maintain a single bounded contour over time. Drawing…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Persistence, Infants, Visual Perception
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Kaldy, Zsuzsa; Leslie, Alan M. – Cognition, 2005
Infants' abilities to identify objects based on their perceptual features develop gradually during the first year and possibly beyond. Earlier we reported [Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: Integrating "what" and "where" information. Developmental Science, 6, 360-373] that infants at 9 months of…
Descriptors: Memory, Identification, Object Permanence, Infant Behavior
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Bonatti, Luca; Frot, Emmanuel; Zangl, Renate; Mehler, Jacques – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
How do infants individuate and track objects, and among them objects belonging to their species, when they can only rely on information about the properties of those objects? We propose the Human First Hypothesis (HFH), which posits that infants possess information about their conspecifics and use it to identify and count objects. F. Xu and S.…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Psychology, Identification (Psychology), Cognitive Processes