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Chen, Jie; Tardif, Twila; Pulverman, Rachel; Casasola, Marianella; Zhu, Liqi; Zheng, Xiaobei; Meng, Xiangzhi – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The present studies examined the role of linguistic experience in directing English and Mandarin learners' attention to aspects of a visual scene. Specifically, they asked whether young language learners in these 2 cultures attend to differential aspects of a word-learning situation. Two groups of English and Mandarin learners, 6-8-month-olds (n =…
Descriptors: Infants, English, Mandarin Chinese, Attention
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Loucks, Jeff; Sommerville, Jessica A. – Developmental Science, 2012
Recent evidence suggests that adults selectively attend to features of action, such as how a hand contacts an object, and less to configural properties of action, such as spatial trajectory, when observing human actions. The current research investigated whether this bias develops in infancy. We utilized a habituation paradigm to assess…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Discrimination, Age Differences, Child Development
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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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Brune, Camille W.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
In this study, we investigated relations between infants' understanding of intentional actions and measures of social responsiveness during a transitional period, 9- to 11-months. Infants (N = 52) were tested in visual habituation paradigms tapping their understanding of the relation between a person and the object of her attention. Measures of…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Habituation, Intention