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Spangler, Sibylle M.; Schwarzer, Gudrun; Freitag, Claudia; Vierhaus, Marc; Teubert, Manuel; Fassbender, Ina; Lohaus, Arnold; Kolling, Thorsten; Graf, Frauke; Goertz, Claudia; Knopf, Monika; Lamm, Bettina; Keller, Heidi – Infancy, 2013
We investigated the development of the other-race effect "ORE" in a longitudinal sample of 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old Caucasian infants. Previous research using cross-sectional samples has shown an unstable ORE at 3 months, an increase at 6 months and full development at 9 months. In Experiment 1, we tested whether 9-month-olds showed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Child Development
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Ferguson, Kim T.; Kulkofsky, Sarah; Cashon, Cara H.; Casasola, Marianella – Infancy, 2009
In this study, we examined developmental changes in infants' processing of own- versus other-race faces. Caucasian American 8-month-olds (Experiment 1) and 4-month-olds (Experiment 2) were tested in a habituation-switch procedure designed to assess holistic (attending to the relationship between internal and external features of the face) versus…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Whites, Cognitive Processes
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Kovack-Lesh, Kristine A.; Horst, Jessica S.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Infancy, 2008
We examined the effect of 4-month-old infants' previous experience with dogs, cats, or both and their online looking behavior on their learning of the adult-defined category of "cat" in a visual familiarization task. Four-month-old infants' (N = 123) learning in the laboratory was jointly determined by whether or not they had experience…
Descriptors: Infants, Classification, Eye Movements, Animals
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Schmuckler, Mark A.; Jewell, Stephanie – Infancy, 2007
This study examined 6-month-old infants' abilities to use the visual information provided by simulated self-movement through the world, and movement of an object through the world, for spatial orientation. Infants were habituated to a visual display in which they saw a toy hidden, followed by either rotation of the point of observation through the…
Descriptors: Infants, Toys, Spatial Ability, Motion