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Riviere, James; David, Elodie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013
In the C-not-B task, 2.5-year-old children tend to look for an object in a location to which the hiding agent moved his hand (C) after moving an object from A to B. In three experiments, the authors investigated the nature of the constraints underlying toddlers' performance in this task. In Experiment 1, 2.5-year-olds were tested in a new version…
Descriptors: Young Children, Object Permanence, Toddlers, Experiments
Osina, Maria A.; Saylor, Megan M.; Ganea, Patricia A. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Three experiments that demonstrate a novel constraint on infants' language skills are described. Across the experiments it is shown that as babies near their 1st birthday, their ability to respond to talk about an absent object is influenced by a referent's spatiotemporal history: familiarizing infants with an object in 1 or several nontest…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Language Skills, Infants, Object Permanence
Bruce, Susan M.; Vargas, Claudia – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2013
"Object permanence," also known as "object concept" in the field of visual impairment, is one of the most important early developmental milestones. The achievement of object permanence is associated with the onset of representational thought and language. Object permanence is important to orientation, including the recognition of landmarks.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Visual Impairments, Multiple Disabilities, Object Permanence
Bion, Ricardo A. H.; Borovsky, Arielle; Fernald, Anne – Cognition, 2013
When hearing a novel name, children tend to select a novel object rather than a familiar one, a bias known as disambiguation. Using online processing measures with 18-, 24-, and 30-month-olds, we investigate how the development of this bias relates to word learning. Children's proportion of looking time to a novel object after hearing a novel name…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Novels, Vocabulary Development, Infants
Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Gredeback, Gustaf; Boyer, Ty W. – Child Development, 2013
Sixty infants divided evenly between 5 and 7 months of age were tested for their knowledge of object continuity versus discontinuity with a predictive tracking task. The stimulus event consisted of a moving ball that was briefly occluded for 20 trials. Both age groups predictively tracked the ball when it disappeared and reappeared via occlusion,…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Eye Movements, Prediction
Sirois, Sylvain; Jackson, Iain R. – Infancy, 2012
This paper examines the relative merits of looking time and pupil diameter measures in the study of early cognitive abilities of infants. Ten-month-old infants took part in a modified version of the classic drawbridge experiment used to study object permanence (Baillargeon, Spelke, & Wasserman, 1985). The study involved a factorial design where…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Cognitive Ability, Eye Movements
Zosh, Jennifer M.; Feigenson, Lisa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Accurate representation of a changing environment requires individuation--the ability to determine how many numerically distinct objects are present in a scene. Much research has characterized early individuation abilities by identifying which object features infants can use to individuate throughout development. However, despite the fact that…
Descriptors: Infants, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Ability, Task Analysis
Baillargeon, Renee; Stavans, Maayan; Wu, Di; Gertner, Yael; Setoh, Peipei; Kittredge, Audrey K.; Bernard, Amelie – Language Learning and Development, 2012
Much of the research on object individuation in infancy has used a task in which two different objects emerge in alternation from behind a large screen, which is then removed to reveal either one or two objects. In their seminal work, Xu and Carey (1996) found that it is typically not until the end of the first year that infants detect a violation…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Thinking Skills, Investigations
Shinskey, Jeanne L. – Infancy, 2012
Infants search for an object hidden by an occluder in the light months later than one hidden by darkness. One explanation attributes this decalage to easier action demands in darkness versus occlusion, whereas another attributes it to easier representation demands in darkness versus occlusion. However, search tasks typically confound these two…
Descriptors: Infants, Object Permanence, Search Strategies, Light
Bremner, J. Gavin; Slater, Alan M.; Johnson, Scott P.; Mason, Uschi C.; Spring, Jo – Child Development, 2012
Young infants perceive an object's trajectory as continuous across occlusion provided the temporal or spatial gap in perception is small. In 3 experiments involving 72 participants the authors investigated the effects of different forms of auditory information on 4-month-olds' perception of trajectory continuity. Provision of dynamic auditory…
Descriptors: Infants, Auditory Stimuli, Perception, Child Development
Benitez, Viridiana L.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognition, 2012
Expectancy-based localized attention has been shown to promote the formation and retrieval of multisensory memories in adults. Three experiments show that these processes also characterize attention and learning in 16- to 18-month old infants and, moreover, that these processes may play a critical role in supporting early object name learning. The…
Descriptors: Infants, Object Permanence, Prediction, Language Acquisition
Wahl, Sebastian; Michel, Christine; Pauen, Sabina; Hoehl, Stefanie – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study investigates the effects of attention-guiding stimuli on 4-month-old infants' object processing. In the human head condition, infants saw a person turning her head and eye gaze towards or away from objects. When presented with the objects again, infants showed increased attention in terms of longer looking time measured by eye…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Infants, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Intermanual Transfer of Shapes in Preterm Human Infants from 33 to 34 + 6 Weeks Postconceptional Age
Lejeune, Fleur; Marcus, Leila; Berne-Audeoud, Frederique; Streri, Arlette; Debillon, Thierry; Gentaz, Edouard – Child Development, 2012
This study investigated the ability of preterm infants to learn an object shape with one hand and discriminate a new shape in the opposite hand (without visual control). Twenty-four preterm infants between 33 and 34 + 6 gestational weeks received a tactile habituation task with either their right or left hand followed by a tactile discrimination…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Habituation, Learning Processes, Object Permanence
Lourenco, Stella F.; Addy, Dede; Huttenlocher, Janellen; Fabian, Lydia – Developmental Science, 2011
When geometric and non-geometric information are both available for specifying location, men have been shown to rely more heavily on geometry compared to women. To shed insight on the nature and developmental origins of this sex difference, we examined how 18- to 24-month-olds represented the geometry of a surrounding (rectangular) space when…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Cues, Females, Geometric Concepts
Blake, Peter R.; Harris, Paul L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2011
To navigate a world filled with private property, children must be able to assign ownership information to objects and update that information when appropriate. In this chapter, the authors propose that children include ownership as an attribute of their object representations. Children can learn about ownership attributes either by witnessing…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Ownership, Developmental Stages, Children