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Needham, Amy; Cantlon, Jessica F.; Ormsbee Holley, Susan M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2006
The current research investigates infants' perception of a novel object from a category that is familiar to young infants: key rings. We ask whether experiences obtained outside the lab would allow young infants to parse the visible portions of a partly occluded key ring display into one single unit, presumably as a result of having categorized it…
Descriptors: Infants, Investigations, Visual Perception, Classification
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Aguiar, Andrea; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
Eight experiments were conducted to examine 3- and 3.5-month-old infants' responses to occlusion events. The results revealed two developments, one in infants' knowledge of when objects should and should not be occluded and the other in infants' ability to posit additional objects to make sense of events that would otherwise violate their…
Descriptors: Infants, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Infant Behavior