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Parts, Cavities, and Object Representation in Infancy
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Hayden, Angela; Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Kangas, Ashley; Zieber, Nicole – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Part representation is not only critical to object perception but also plays a key role in a number of basic visual cognition functions, such as figure-ground segregation, allocation of attention, and memory for shapes. Yet, virtually nothing is known about the development of part representation. If parts are fundamental components of object shape…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Body Representation in the First Year of Life
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Zieber, Nicole; Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Hayden, Angela; Kangas, Ashley; Collins, Rebecca; Bada, Henrietta – Infancy, 2010
Like faces, bodies are significant sources of social information. However, research suggests that infants do not develop body representation (i.e., knowledge about typical human bodies) until the second year of life, although they are sensitive to facial information much earlier. Yet, previous research only examined whether infants are sensitive…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Infants, Human Body, Infant Behavior
The Other-Race Effect in Infancy: Evidence Using a Morphing Technique
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Hayden, Angela; Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Joseph, Jane E.; Tanaka, James W. – Infancy, 2007
Human adults are more accurate at discriminating faces from their own race than faces from another race. This "other-race effect" (ORE) has been characterized as a reflection of face processing specialization arising from differential experience with own-race faces. We examined whether 3.5-month-old infants exhibit ORE using morphed faces on which…
Descriptors: Infants, Whites, Discrimination Learning, Asians
Dissociation between Features and Feature Relations in Infant Memory: Effects of Memory Load.
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Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Four experiments examined effects of the number of features and feature relations on learning and long-term memory in 3-month olds. Findings suggested that memory load size selectively constrained infants' long-term memory for relational information, suggesting that in infants, features and relations are psychologically distinct and that memory…
Descriptors: Infants, Learning Processes, Long Term Memory, Memory
Perception of Three-Dimensional Cues in Early Infancy.
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Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Waters, Susan E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Three experiments examined infants' processing of three-dimensional (3D) information in static images. Results indicated that 3-month olds are sensitive to 3D cues in static images. However, discrepancies based on these cues may not engage infants' attention like those based on fundamental features. (Author)
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Dimensional Preference, Infant Behavior
Dissociations between Featural versus Conjunction-based Texture Processing in Infancy: Analyses of Three Potential Contributing Factors.
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Bertin, Evelin; Bhatt, Ramesh S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Examined three possible explanations for findings that infants detect textural discrepancies based on individual features more readily than on feature conjunctions. Found that none of the proposed factors could explain 5.5-month-olds' superior processing of featural over conjunction-based textural discrepancies. Findings suggest that in infancy,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Infants