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Direct linkKuhlmeier, Valerie A.; Bloom, Paul; Wynn, Karen – Cognition, 2004
Infants expect objects to be solid and cohesive, and to move on continuous paths through space. In this study, we examine whether infants understand that human beings are material objects, subject to these same principles. We report that 5-month-old infants apply the constraint of continuous motion to inanimate blocks, but not to people. This…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Motion
Peer reviewedvon Hofsten, Claes; Vishton, Peter; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Feng, Qi; Rosander, Kerstin – Cognition, 1998
Explored early-developing predictions of object motion through 6-month-old infants' head tracking and reaching for moving objects. Found evidence for infants' extrapolation of object motion on linear paths, in accord with principle of inertia. This tendency was remarkably resistant to counter-evidence, observed even after repeated presentations of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts, Infant Behavior
