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Osina, Maria A.; Saylor, Megan M.; Ganea, Patricia A. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Three experiments that demonstrate a novel constraint on infants' language skills are described. Across the experiments it is shown that as babies near their 1st birthday, their ability to respond to talk about an absent object is influenced by a referent's spatiotemporal history: familiarizing infants with an object in 1 or several nontest…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Language Skills, Infants, Object Permanence
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Bullens, Jessie; Klugkist, Irene; Postma, Albert – Developmental Psychology, 2011
To locate objects in the environment, animals and humans use visual and nonvisual information. We were interested in children's ability to relocate an object on the basis of self-motion and local and distal color cues for orientation. Five- to 9-year-old children were tested on an object location memory task in which, between presentation and…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Cues, Memory, Children
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Okamoto-Barth; Sanae; Call, Josep – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Finding hidden objects in space is a fundamental ability that has received considerable research attention from both a developmental and a comparative perspective. Tracking the rotational displacements of containers and hidden objects is a particularly challenging task. This study investigated the ability of 3-, 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old children and…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Spatial Ability, Memory, Psychological Studies
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Twyman, Alexandra; Friedman, Alinda; Spetch, Marcia L. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
We used a reference memory paradigm to examine whether 4- and 5-year-old children could be trained to use landmark features to relocate targets after disorientation. In Experiment 1, half of the children were pretrained in a small equilateral triangle-shaped room. Each of the three walls was a different color, and the target was always in the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Cues, Children, Geometric Concepts
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Ross, Gail; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Premature infants with subependymal or intraventricular hemorrhage took longer to habituate on a habituation task, and scored lower on a measure of mental development, than did other premature infants or full-term infants. Both groups of premature infants were less successful than full-term infants on an object permanence task. (BC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Habituation, Memory, Neurological Impairments
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Ahmed, Ayesha; Ruffman, Ted – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Four experiments examined 8- to 12-month olds on search and nonsearch A not B tasks, a one-location task, and control tasks. Results indicated memory for where object was hidden and expectations of where it should be found. The effect occurred at delays at which infants made the A not B error when searching, and at a longer 15-second delay.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns, Expectation