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de Carvalho, Alex; Crimon, Cécile; Barrault, Axel; Trueswell, John; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2021
Two word-learning experiments were conducted to investigate the understanding of negative sentences in 18- and 24-month-old children. In Experiment 1, after learning that "bamoule" means "penguin" and "pirdaling" means "cartwheeling," 18-month-olds (n = 48) increased their looking times when listening to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Sentences
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Stavans, Maayan; Baillargeon, Renée – Developmental Science, 2018
Two experiments examined whether 4-month-olds (n = 120) who were induced to assign two objects to different categories would then be able to take advantage of these contrastive categorical encodings to individuate and track the objects. In each experiment, infants first watched functional demonstrations of two tools, a masher and tongs (Experiment…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli, Task Analysis
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Yow, W. Quin; Li, Xiaoqian; Lam, Sarah; Gliga, Teodora; Chong, Yap Seng; Kwek, Kenneth; Broekman, Birit F. P. – Developmental Science, 2017
Research has demonstrated a bilingual advantage in how young children use referential cues such as eye gaze and pointing gesture to locate an object or to categorize objects. This study investigated the use of referential cues (i.e. eye gaze) in fast mapping in three groups of children that differed in their language exposure. One hundred and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Bilingualism, Cues, Eye Movements
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Kovács, Ágnes M.; Téglás, Erno; Gergely, György; Csibra, Gergely – Developmental Science, 2017
In their first years, infants acquire an incredible amount of information regarding the objects present in their environment. While often it is not clear what specific information should be prioritized in encoding from the many characteristics of an object, different types of object representations facilitate different types of generalizations. We…
Descriptors: Infants, Generalization, Ambiguity (Context), Cognitive Processes
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Morey, Candice C.; Mareva, Silvana; Lelonkiewicz, Jaroslaw R.; Chevalier, Nicolas – Developmental Science, 2018
The emergence of strategic verbal rehearsal at around 7 years of age is widely considered a major milestone in descriptions of the development of short-term memory across childhood. Likewise, rehearsal is believed by many to be a crucial factor in explaining why memory improves with age. This apparent qualitative shift in mnemonic processes has…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Mnemonics, Child Development, Qualitative Research
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Fawcett, Christine; Gredebäck, Gustaf – Developmental Science, 2013
Eye tracking was used to show that 18-month-old infants are sensitive to social context as a sign that others' actions are bound together as a collaborative sequence based on a joint goal. Infants observed five identical demonstrations in which Actor 1 moved a block to one location and Actor 2 moved the same block to a new location, creating…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Infants, Cooperation, Social Environment
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Kaminski, Juliane; Schulz, Linda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2012
Domestic dogs comprehend human gestural communication in a way that other animal species do not. But little is known about the specific cues they use to determine when human communication is intended for them. In a series of four studies, we confronted both adult dogs and young dog puppies with object choice tasks in which a human indicated one of…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Human Body
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Riby, Deborah M.; Doherty-Sneddon, Gwyneth; Whittle, Lisa – Developmental Science, 2012
Visual communication cues facilitate interpersonal communication. It is important that we look at faces to retrieve and subsequently process such cues. It is also important that we sometimes look away from faces as they increase cognitive load that may interfere with online processing. Indeed, when typically developing individuals hold face gaze…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Autism
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Quinn, Paul C.; Doran, Matthew M.; Reiss, Jason E.; Hoffman, James E. – Developmental Science, 2010
Subordinate-level category-learning processes in infants were investigated with ERP and looking-time measures. ERPs were recorded while 6- to 7-month-olds were presented with Saint Bernard images during familiarization, followed by novel Saint Bernards interspersed with Beagles during test. In addition, infant looking times were measured during a…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Learning Processes, Novels
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Mahajan, Neha; Barnes, Jennifer L.; Blanco, Marissa; Santos, Laurie R. – Developmental Science, 2009
Both human infants and adult non-human primates share the capacity to track small numbers of objects across time and occlusion. The question now facing developmental and comparative psychologists is whether similar mechanisms give rise to this capacity across the two populations. Here, we explore whether non-human primates' object tracking…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Infants, Primatology, Object Permanence
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Johnson, Susan C.; Ok, Su-Jeong; Luo, Yuyan – Developmental Science, 2007
The current study distinguishes between attributions of goal-directed perception (i.e. attention) and non-goal-directed perception to examine 9-month-olds' interpretation of others' head and eye turns. In a looking time task, 9-month-olds encoded the relationship between an actor's head and eye turns and a target object if the head and eye turns…
Descriptors: Infants, Human Body, Eye Movements, Attention