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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
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Colombo, John; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Four experiments tested four month olds on visual discrimination tasks. As the time allotted to solve these problems was shortened, infants who looked at stimuli for a short amount of time performed better than other infants, indicating that performance superiority was attributable to speed of processing. (BC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Eye Fixations, Individual Differences, Infants
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Prather, P A; Bacon, Joshua – Child Development, 1986
Describes preschool children's ability to simultaneously perceive multiple aspects of an object in two experiments during which three- to five-year-olds were asked to describe part/whole pictures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Metacognition, Perceptual Development, Pictorial Stimuli
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Turati, Chiara; Macchi Cassia, Viola; Simion, Francesca; Leo, Irene – Child Development, 2006
Existing data indicate that newborns are able to recognize individual faces, but little is known about what perceptual cues drive this ability. The current study showed that either the inner or outer features of the face can act as sufficient cues for newborns' face recognition (Experiment 1), but the outer part of the face enjoys an advantage…
Descriptors: Neonates, Cues, Recognition (Psychology), Human Body
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Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn – Child Development, 1996
Three studies, involving 72 3-month-old infants, demonstrated that infants remembered some of the original feature combinations of a mobile they had been trained to activate for up to 3 days but forgot all of them after 4 days. Even after 4 days, however, infants remembered the individual features that had entered into the original combinations.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Color, Infants, Long Term Memory
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Higgins, Anne T.; Turnure, James E. – Child Development, 1984
Preschool, second-, and sixth-grade children performed developmentally gradated, easy and difficult visual discrimination tasks in a quiet room or with one of two levels of extraneous auditory stimulation. Subjects' errors, response latencies, and glances away from the task were recorded. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education