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Rodríguez, Jimena; Salsa, Analía; Martí, Eduardo – Infant and Child Development, 2021
This study examines the impact of manipulation on the performance of 3.5- and 4-year-old children in the Give-N task with concrete representations (sets of bottle caps and pictures of dots) and spoken number words. In this task, children were asked to give a certain number of items (cookies) using the three representational formats. Children were…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Object Manipulation, Task Analysis, Pictorial Stimuli
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Chua, Kao-Wei; Bub, Daniel N.; Masson, Michael E. J.; Gauthier, Isabel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Seeing pictures of objects activates the motor cortex and can have an influence on subsequent grasping actions. However, the exact nature of the motor representations evoked by these pictures is unclear. For example, action plans engaged by pictures could be most affected by direct visual input and computed online based on object shape.…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Recognition (Psychology), Comprehension, Attention