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Modeling Referential Actions in 6- to 18-Month-Old Infants: A Precursor to Symbolic Understanding
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Callaghan, Tara C.; Rochat, Philippe; MacGillivray, Tanya; MacLellan, Crystal – Child Development, 2004
Social precursors to symbolic understanding of pictures were examined with 100 infants ages 6, 9, 12, 15, and 18 months. Adults demonstrated 1 of 2 stances toward pictures and objects (contemplative or manipulative), and then gave items to infants for exploration. For pictures, older infants (12, 15, and 18 months) emulated the adult's actions…
Descriptors: Infants, Socialization, Observational Learning, Pictorial Stimuli
Generalization of Learning in Three-and-a-Half-Month-Old Infants on the Basis of Amodal Relations.
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Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Child Development, 2002
Investigated the extent to which 3.5-month-old infants trained in amodal auditory-visual relations between falling objects and the sounds they made could generalize their intermodal knowledge to a new task and across events. Found that infants tested with familiar events and with events of a new color or shape showed learning and transfer…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Infants, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
You Go This Way and I'll Go That Way: Developmental Changes in Infants' Detection of Correlations among Static and Dynamic Features in Motion Events.
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Rakison, David H.; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Child Development, 2002
Four studies examined 10- to 18-month-old infants' ability to detect and encode correlations among features in a motion event. Findings indicated that the youngest infants process static features in an event independently but do not process correlations among dynamic features; the oldest detect correlations between all three features when the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Infants, Learning Modalities