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Bambha, Valerie P.; Beckner, Aaron G.; Shetty, Nikita; Voss, Annika T.; Xie, Jinlin; Yiu, Eunice; LoBue, Vanessa; Oakes, Lisa M.; Casasola, Marianella – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Spatial play in early childhood is associated with a variety of spatial and cognitive skills. However, these associations are often derived from studies in which different tasks are used across different age ranges, leaving open the question of how children's natural behaviors during spatial play develop from infancy into the early preschool…
Descriptors: Child Development, Object Manipulation, Psychomotor Skills, Problem Solving
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Ornkloo, Helena; von Hofsten, Claes – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors examined 14- to 26-month-old infants' understanding of the spatial relationships between objects and apertures in an object manipulation task. The task was to insert objects with various cross-sections (circular, square, rectangular, ellipsoid, and triangular) into fitting apertures. A successful solution required the infant to…
Descriptors: Infants, Object Manipulation, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving
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Bourgeois, Kristine S.; Khawar, Alexa W.; Neal, S. Ashley; Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Infancy, 2005
Although a considerable amount is known about the development of object manipulation during the 1st year, less is known about how infants manually explore surfaces and relate objects to surfaces. To address these issues, 60 infants (20 each at 6, 8, and 10 months of age) were presented hard and soft objects on tabletop surfaces, which varied in…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, Infants, Tactual Perception, Stimuli