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San Juan, Valerie; Lin, Carol; Mackenzie, Heather; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
We examined if and when English-learning 17-month-olds would accommodate Japanese forms as labels for novel objects. In Experiment 1, infants (n = 22) who were habituated to Japanese word-object pairs looked longer at switched test pairs than familiar test pairs, suggesting that they had mapped Japanese word forms to objects. In Experiments 2 (n =…
Descriptors: Infants, Japanese, English, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Rakison, David H.; Krogh, Lauren – Developmental Science, 2012
Previous research has established that infants are unable to perceive causality until 6 1/4 months of age. The current experiments examined whether infants' ability to engage in causal action could facilitate causal perception prior to this age. In Experiment 1, 4 1/2-month-olds were randomly assigned to engage in causal action experience via…
Descriptors: Infants, Perception, Habituation, Generalization
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Bremner, J. Gavin; Slater, Alan M.; Johnson, Scott P.; Mason, Uschi C.; Spring, Jo; Bremner, Maggie E. – Child Development, 2011
From birth, infants detect associations between the locations of static visual objects and sounds they emit, but there is limited evidence regarding their sensitivity to the dynamic equivalent when a sound-emitting object moves. In 4 experiments involving thirty-six 2-month-olds, forty-eight 5-month-olds, and forty-eight 8-month-olds, we…
Descriptors: Infants, Habituation, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Sommerville, Jessica A.; Hildebrand, Elina A.; Crane, Catharyn C. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Prior work suggests that active experience affects infants' understanding of simple actions. The present studies compared the impact of active and observational experience on infants' ability to identify the goal of a novel tool-use event. Infants either received active training and practice in using a cane to retrieve an out-of-reach toy or had…
Descriptors: Infants, Experiential Learning, Perception, Research Tools
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Huber, David E.; Clark, Tedra F.; Curran, Tim; Winkielman, Piotr – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Five experiments explored the effects of immediate repetition priming on episodic recognition (the "Jacoby-Whitehouse effect") as measured with forced-choice testing. These experiments confirmed key predictions of a model adapted from D. E. Huber and R. C. O'Reilly's (2003) dynamic neural network of perception. In this model, short prime durations…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Experimental Psychology, Infants, Recognition (Psychology)
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Brannon, Elizabeth M.; Suanda, Sumarga; Libertus, Klaus – Developmental Science, 2007
Time perception is important for many aspects of human behavior, and a large literature documents that adults represent intervals and that their ability to discriminate temporal intervals is ratio dependent. Here we replicate a recent study by vanMarle and Wynn (2006 ) that used the visual habituation paradigm and demonstrated that temporal…
Descriptors: Intervals, Infants, Discrimination Learning, Time Factors (Learning)