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A Developmental Analysis of the Polar Structure of Dimensions.
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Smith, Linda B.; Sera, Maria D. – Cognitive Psychology, 1992
Six experiments involving 279 2- to 5-year-old children, 52 undergraduates, and 16 adults examined the interaction of perception and language in the development of magnitude marking of size, loudness, and achromatic color. Results suggest converging interactions between perception and language for size and loudness and antagonistic interactions…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Perception of Acoustic Correlates of Major Phrasal Units by Young Infants.
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Jusczyk, Peter W.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1992
Six experiments involving 192 infants and 1 experiment with 16 college students examined sensitivity to acoustic correlates of phrasal units in English. A basic finding is that nine-month-old infants are sensitive to acoustic markers that correspond to major phrasal units, a sensitivity that develops after six months. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Child Development, Child Language
The Human First Hypothesis: Identification of Conspecifics and Individuation of Objects in the Young Infant
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Bonatti, Luca; Frot, Emmanuel; Zangl, Renate; Mehler, Jacques – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
How do infants individuate and track objects, and among them objects belonging to their species, when they can only rely on information about the properties of those objects? We propose the Human First Hypothesis (HFH), which posits that infants possess information about their conspecifics and use it to identify and count objects. F. Xu and S.…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Psychology, Identification (Psychology), Cognitive Processes