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Newborns' Perception of Left-Right Spatial Relations
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Gava, Lucia; Valenza, Eloisa; Turati, Chiara – Child Development, 2009
Five experiments examined 79 newborns' ability to discriminate and categorize a spatial relation, defined by the left-right spatial position of a blinking object-target with respect to a vertical landmark-bar. Three-day-old infants discriminated the up versus low position of an object located on the same side of the landmark-bar (Experiment 1) and…
Descriptors: Neonates, Spatial Ability, Visual Stimuli, Visual Discrimination
Phenomenal Permanence and the Development of Predictive Tracking in Infancy
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Longo, Matthew R.; Kenny, Sarah – Child Development, 2007
The perceived spatiotemporal continuity of objects depends on the way they appear and disappear as they move in the spatial layout. This study investigated whether infants' predictive tracking of a briefly occluded object is sensitive to the manner by which the object disappears and reappears. Five-, 7-, and 9-month-old infants were shown a ball…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Infants, Visual Perception, Object Permanence
The Categorization of above and below Spatial Relations by Young Infants.
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Quinn, Paul C. – Child Development, 1994
Three experiments using the familiarization-novelty preference procedure confirmed the hypothesis that three-month-old infants could form categorical representations of spatial relations above and below. The infants, after being shown a familiarization diagram with a dot appearing in multiple locations below a line, showed a preference for a novel…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Infants, Spatial Ability
Children's Memory for Orientation in the Absence of External Cues.
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Fisher, Celia B. – Child Development, 1979
In Experiment I, 24 preschoolers were tested on left-right, vertical-horizontal, and mirror-image oblique discriminations under essentially context-free conditions. Experiment II contrasted children's performance under context-free conditions with their ability to discriminate orientation in the presence of external visual cues. (RH)
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Orientation, Preschool Children
Children's Perception of Proportion in Graphs.
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Spencer, Ian; Krizel, Peter – Child Development, 1994
Children, ages 9 to 13 years, made judgments of proportion with a variety of graphical elements in 2 experiments. A characteristic pattern of over- and underestimation was observed; this pattern was also present, but previously unnoticed, in judgments made by adults. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Infants' Forgetting of Correlated Attributes and Object Recognition.
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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
Kinetic Contours in Infants' Visual Perception.
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Kaufmann-Hayoz, Ruth; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines 3-month-old infants' perception of "camouflaged" forms that were only visible when moving. Shows infants effectively use kinetic information to organize visual input in higher-order structures. (HOD)
Descriptors: Habituation, Infants, Kinesthetic Perception, Motion