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Meltzoff, Andrew N.; Murray, Lynne; Simpson, Elizabeth; Heimann, Mikael; Nagy, Emese; Nadel, Jacqueline; Pedersen, Eric J.; Brooks, Rechele; Messinger, Daniel S.; De Pascalis, Leonardo; Subiaul, Francys; Paukner, Annika; Ferrari, Pier F. – Developmental Science, 2018
The meaning, mechanism, and function of imitation in early infancy have been actively discussed since Meltzoff and Moore's (1977) report of facial and manual imitation by human neonates. Oostenbroek et al. (2016) claim to challenge the existence of early imitation and to counter all interpretations so far offered. Such claims, if true, would have…
Descriptors: Neonates, Human Body, Imitation, Infants
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Loucks, Jeff; Sommerville, Jessica A. – Developmental Science, 2012
Recent evidence suggests that adults selectively attend to features of action, such as how a hand contacts an object, and less to configural properties of action, such as spatial trajectory, when observing human actions. The current research investigated whether this bias develops in infancy. We utilized a habituation paradigm to assess…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Discrimination, Age Differences, Child Development
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Robbins, Rachel A.; Maurer, Daphne; Hatry, Alexandra; Anzures, Gizelle; Mondloch, Catherine J. – Developmental Science, 2012
We used opposing figural aftereffects to investigate whether there are at least partially separable representations of upright and inverted faces in patients who missed early visual experience because of bilateral congenital cataracts (mean age at test 19.5 years). Visually normal adults and 10-year-olds were tested for comparison. Adults showed…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Patients, Investigations, Adults
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Floccia, Caroline; Nazzi, Thierry; Austin, Keith; Arreckx, Frederique; Goslin, Jeremy – Developmental Science, 2011
To investigate the interaction between segmental and supra-segmental stress-related information in early word learning, two experiments were conducted with 20- to 24-month-old English-learning children. In an adaptation of the object categorization study designed by Nazzi and Gopnik (2001), children were presented with pairs of novel objects whose…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonetics, Phonemes, Word Processing
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Huyck, Julia Jones; Wright, Beverly A. – Developmental Science, 2011
Adults can improve their performance on many perceptual tasks with training, but when does the response to training become mature? To investigate this question, we trained 11-year-olds, 14-year-olds and adults on a basic auditory task (temporal-interval discrimination) using a multiple-session training regimen known to be effective for adults. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Visual Perception, Cognitive Style, Age Differences
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Paulus, Markus; Hunnius, Sabine; Vissers, Marlies; Bekkering, Harold – Developmental Science, 2011
This paper investigates a two-stage model of infants' imitative learning from observed actions and their effects. According to this model, the observation of another person's action activates the corresponding motor code in the infants' motor repertoire (i.e. leads to motor resonance). The second process guiding imitative behavior results from the…
Descriptors: Imitation, Observational Learning, Infants, Investigations
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Mackey, Allyson P.; Hill, Susanna S.; Stone, Susan I.; Bunge, Silvia A. – Developmental Science, 2011
The goal of this study was to determine whether intensive training can ameliorate cognitive skills in children. Children aged 7 to 9 from low socioeconomic backgrounds participated in one of two cognitive training programs for 60 minutes/day and 2 days/week, for a total of 8 weeks. Both training programs consisted of commercially available…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Cognitive Processes, Training, Computer Uses in Education
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Mayor, Julien; Plunkett, Kim – Developmental Science, 2011
For the last 20 years, developmental psychologists have measured the variability in lexical development of infants and toddlers using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs)--the most widely used parental report forms for assessing language and communication skills in infants and toddlers. We show that CDI reports can…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Toddlers, Infants, Developmental Psychology
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Valenza, Eloisa; Bulf, Hermann – Developmental Science, 2011
The present study aimed to investigate whether perceptual completion is available at birth, in the absence of any visual experience. An extremely underspecified kinetic visual display composed of four spatially separated fragments arranged to give rise to an illusory rectangle that occluded a vertical rod (illusory condition) or rotated so as not…
Descriptors: Evidence, Stimuli, Mechanics (Physics), Neonates
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Ray, Elizabeth; Heyes, Cecilia – Developmental Science, 2011
Imitation requires the imitator to solve the correspondence problem--to translate visual information from modelled action into matching motor output. It has been widely accepted for some 30 years that the correspondence problem is solved by a specialized, innate cognitive mechanism. This is the conclusion of a poverty of the stimulus argument,…
Descriptors: Neonates, Imitation, Visual Stimuli, Perceptual Motor Learning
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Pivik, R. T.; Andres, Aline; Badger, Thomas M. – Developmental Science, 2011
Early post-natal nutrition influences later development, but there are no studies comparing brain function in healthy infants as a function of dietary intake even though the major infant diets differ significantly in nutrient composition. We studied brain responses (event-related potentials; ERPs) to speech sounds for infants who were fed either…
Descriptors: Child Development, Syllables, Infants, Brain
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Rugani, Rosa; Regolin, Lucia; Vallortigara, Giorgio – Developmental Science, 2010
Newborn chicks were tested for their sensitivity to number vs. continuous physical extent of artificial objects they had been reared with soon after hatching. Because of the imprinting process, such objects were treated by chicks as social companions. We found that when the objects were similar, chicks faced with choices between 1 vs. 2 or 2 vs. 3…
Descriptors: Infants, Animals, Behavior, Evaluation Methods
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Arciuli, Joanne; Simpson, Ian C. – Developmental Science, 2011
It is possible that statistical learning (SL) plays a role in almost every mental activity. Indeed, research on SL has grown rapidly over recent decades in an effort to better understand perception and cognition. Yet, there remain gaps in our understanding of how SL operates, in particular with regard to its (im)mutability. Here, we investigated…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Multiple Regression Analysis, Language Processing, Children
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Codina, Charlotte; Buckley, David; Port, Michael; Pascalis, Olivier – Developmental Science, 2011
This study investigated peripheral vision (at least 30[degrees] eccentric to fixation) development in profoundly deaf children without cochlear implantation, and compared this to age-matched hearing controls as well as to deaf and hearing adult data. Deaf and hearing children between the ages of 5 and 15 years were assessed using a new,…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reaction Time, Deafness, Visual Acuity
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Kidd, Celeste; White, Katherine S.; Aslin, Richard N. – Developmental Science, 2011
The ability to infer the referential intentions of speakers is a crucial part of learning a language. Previous research has uncovered various contextual and social cues that children may use to do this. Here we provide the first evidence that children also use speech disfluencies to infer speaker intention. Disfluencies (e.g. filled pauses "uh"…
Descriptors: Evidence, Drama, Cues, Intention
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