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Direct linkSalo, Virginia C.; Debnath, Ranjan; Rowe, Meredith L.; Fox, Nathan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Exposure to communicative gestures, through their parents' use of gestures, is associated with infants' language development. However, the mechanisms supporting this link are not fully understood. In adults, sensorimotor brain activity occurs while processing communicative stimuli, including both spoken language and gestures. Using…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Language Acquisition, Brain
Freier, Livia; Mason, Luke; Bremner, Andrew J. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
An ability to perceive tactile and visual stimuli in a common spatial frame of reference is a crucial ingredient in forming a representation of one's own body and the interface between bodily and external space. In this study, the authors investigated young infants' abilities to perceive colocation between tactile and visual stimuli presented on…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Tactual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Infants
Barrett, Tracy M.; Davis, Evan F.; Needham, Amy – Developmental Psychology, 2007
These experiments explored the role of prior experience in 12- to 18-month-old infants' tool-directed actions. In Experiment 1, infants' use of a familiar tool (spoon) to accomplish a novel task (turning on lights inside a box) was examined. Infants tended to grasp the spoon by its handle even when doing so made solving the task impossible (the…
Descriptors: Experiments, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development
