NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mendes, Natacha; Rakoczy, Hannes; Call, Josep – Cognition, 2008
Developmental research suggests that whereas very young infants individuate objects purely on spatiotemporal grounds, from (at latest) around 1 year of age children are capable of individuating objects according to the kind they belong to and the properties they instantiate. As the latter ability has been found to correlate with language, some…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Infants, Primatology, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wang, S.h.; Baillargeon, R.; Paterson, S. – Cognition, 2005
Recent research on infants' responses to occlusion and containment events indicates that, although some violations of the continuity principle are detected at an early age e.g. Aguiar, A., & Baillargeon, R. (1999). 2.5-month-old infants' reasoning about when objects should and should not be occluded. Cognitive Psychology 39, 116-157; Hespos, S.…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Object Permanence, Cognitive Psychology, Child Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Song, Hyun-joo; Baillargeon, Renee; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2005
The present research investigated whether 13.5-month-old infants would attribute to an actor a disposition to perform a recurring action, and would then use this information to predict which of two new objects--one that could be used to perform the action and one that could not--the actor would grasp next. During familiarization, the infants…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Cognitive Ability, Familiarity, Behavioral Science Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Phillips, Ann T.; Wellman, Henry M. – Cognition, 2005
When and in what ways do infants recognize humans as intentional actors? An important aspect of this larger question concerns when infants recognize specific human actions (e.g. a reach) as object-directed (i.e. as acting toward goal-objects). In two studies using a visual habituation technique, 12-month-old infants were tested to assess their…
Descriptors: Habituation, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Cognitive Psychology