Infants' Ability To Use Object Kind Information for Object Individuation.

Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan; Welch, Jenny

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ERIC Number: EJ588457

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Publication Date: 1999

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Infants' Ability To Use Object Kind Information for Object Individuation.

Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan; Welch, Jenny

Cognition, v70 n2 p137-66 Mar 1999

Adult and 10- and 12-month olds participated in two experiments to determine reliance of infants on object-kind information in solving problems of object individuation. Findings converge with those of object-first hypothesis of developmental course of object individuation. Findings suggest that young infants may represent one concept as criteria for individuation; kind concepts are acquired later in the year. (LBT)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Habituation, Infants, Learning Processes, Object Permanence, Thinking Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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