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Wass, Sam V.; Smith, Tim J. – Developmental Science, 2015
Younger brains are noisier information processing systems; this means that information for younger individuals has to allow clearer differentiation between those aspects that are required for the processing task in hand (the "signal") and those that are not (the "noise"). We compared toddler-directed and adult-directed TV…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli, Semantics
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Loucks, Jeff; Sommerville, Jessica A. – Developmental Science, 2012
Recent evidence suggests that adults selectively attend to features of action, such as how a hand contacts an object, and less to configural properties of action, such as spatial trajectory, when observing human actions. The current research investigated whether this bias develops in infancy. We utilized a habituation paradigm to assess…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Discrimination, Age Differences, Child Development
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Thomas, Laura A.; De Bellis, Michael D.; Graham, Reiko; Labar, Kevin S. – Developmental Science, 2007
The ability to interpret emotions in facial expressions is crucial for social functioning across the lifespan. Facial expression recognition develops rapidly during infancy and improves with age during the preschool years. However, the developmental trajectory from late childhood to adulthood is less clear. We tested older children, adolescents…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Adolescents, Fear, Children
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Wood, Justin N.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2005
Are abstract representations of number--representations that are independent of the particular type of entities that are enumerated--a product of human language or culture, or do they trace back to human infancy? To address this question, four experiments investigated whether human infants discriminate between sequences of actions (jumps of a…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Infants, Numbers, Visual Stimuli
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Ramsey, Jennifer L.; Langlois, Judith H.; Hoss, Rebecca A.; Rubenstein, Adam J.; Griffin, Angela M. – Developmental Science, 2004
Like adults, young infants prefer attractive to unattractive faces (e.g. Langlois, Roggman, Casey, Ritter, Rieser-Danner & Jenkins, 1987; Slater, von der Schulenburg, Brown, Badenoch, Butterworth, Parsons & Samuels, 1998). Older children and adults stereotype based on facial attractiveness (Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani & Longo, 1991; Langlois,…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Infants, Interpersonal Relationship, Classification