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Peer reviewedRochat, Philippe; Striano, Tricia – Human Development, 1998
Maintains that Muller and Overton (1998) challenge the current Zeitgeist regarding infant cognitive development. Suggests that researchers reconsider infants as developing actors in a meaningful environment, not as born philosophers. Notes the need to explore processes underlying key transitions in infancy and the relation between action and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Individual Development
Peer reviewedEscalona, S. K.; Corman, H. H. – Human Development, 1971
Studies the effects of mothers' presence and absence on two infants from birth to two years. (AJ)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedMandler, Jean M. – Human Development, 1998
Maintains that Muller and Overton (1998) misrepresent her theory of infant concept formation in infancy, makes corrections to their representation, and notes that her theory was developed in part because of the lack of detailed mechanisms in Piaget's theory to account for concept formation. Argues that Muller and Overton's proposed alternative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior, Memory
