NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Quinn, Paul C. – Infancy, 2011
Pattern perception and organization are critical functions of the visual cognition system. Many organizational processes are available early in life, such that infants as young 3 months of age are able to readily utilize a variety of cues to organize visual patterns. However, other processes are not readily evident in young infants, and their…
Descriptors: Infants, Learning, Visual Perception, Learning Experience
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Goldstone, Robert L.; Son, Ji Y.; Byrge, Lisa – Infancy, 2011
Bhatt and Quinn (2011) present a compelling case that human learning is "early" in two very different, but interacting, senses. Learning is "developmentally" early in that even infants show strikingly robust adaptation to the structures present in their world. Learning is also early in an information processing sense because infants adapt their…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Attention Control, Attention, Infants
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lewkowicz, David J. – Infancy, 2011
Since the time of the Greeks, philosophers and scientists have wondered about the origins of structure and function. Plato proposed that the origins of structure and function lie in the organism's nature whereas Aristotle proposed that they lie in its nurture. This nature-nurture dichotomy and the emphasis on the origins question has had a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Infants, Nature Nurture Controversy, Biology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Younger, Barbara A.; Hollich, George; Furrer, Stephanie D. – Infancy, 2004
From Aesop to Sun Tzu, the importance of working together has long been acknowledged. Yet as long as cooperation has existed, so have the difficulties associated with it. Pooling two fields might mean twice the power, but this union also brings twice the jargon, twice the competing theories, and twice the head butting. Nonetheless, in this…
Descriptors: Infants, Correlation, Classification, Age Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hayhoe, Mary M. – Infancy, 2004
Measurement of eye movements is a powerful tool for investigating perceptual and cognitive function in both infants and adults. Straightforwardly, eye movements provide a multifaceted measure of performance. For example, the location of fixations, their duration, time of occurrence, and accuracy all are potentially revealing and often allow…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Eye Movements, Human Body, Inferences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sameroff, Arnold J. – Infancy, 2005
The effectiveness of researchers in infancy is conditioned by their participation in 3 agendas. The academic agenda is devoted to the question of understanding infants, the social agenda is devoted to the question of how to improve the life of infants, and the political agenda is devoted to finding the resources for both understanding and…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Infants, Researchers, Agenda Setting