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Johnson, Scott P.; Slemmer, Jonathan A.; Amso, Dima – Infancy, 2004
A fundamental question of perceptual development concerns how infants come to perceive partly hidden objects as unified across a spatial gap imposed by an occluder. Much is known about the time course of development of perceptual completion during the first several months after birth, as well as some of the visual information that supports unity…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Eye Movements, Infants, Human Body
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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