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Bunger, Ann; Trueswell, John C.; Papafragou, Anna – Cognition, 2012
The relation between event apprehension and utterance formulation was examined in children and adults. English-speaking adults and 4-year-olds viewed motion events while their eye movements were monitored. Half of the participants in each age group described each event (Linguistic task), whereas the other half studied the events for an upcoming…
Descriptors: Age, Eye Movements, Linguistics, Tests
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Mak, Benise S. K.; Vera, Alonso H. – Cognition, 1999
Explored the role of motion versus shape in children's categorization of animal and non-animal kinds. Found that 4-year olds significantly used motion cues over shape cues to categorize objects. Seven-year olds and adults tended to use motion more than shape to categorize animals but not geometric figures. Findings support view that children are…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Classification
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Jusczyk, Peter W.; Johnson, Scott P.; Kennedy, Lori J.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 1999
This study compared role of motion in adults' and infants' perception of object unity. Findings favored ecologically-oriented accounts of object perception. Motion was a determinant of object unity for infants. Alignment and common motion contributed to adults' object-unity perception; synchronous color changes did not. Infants detected…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Color, Infants