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Lewin-Benham, Ann – Teachers College Press, 2023
Now in a second edition, this popular resource shows teachers and childcare providers how to work with young children based on current neuroscience research. Revised and expanded, it contains a wealth of practical and specific activities and materials to use with infants and toddlers to enhance growth and development. For each activity presented,…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Development, Brain
Blau, Shane Reuven – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Infants are born highly sensitive to the natural patterns found in languages. They use their perceptual sensitivity to acquire detailed information about the structure of languages in their environment. To date, most studies of infant perception and early language acquisition have investigated spoken/auditory languages and hearing infants (e.g.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Linguistic Input, Language Patterns, Infants
Needham, Amy; Goldstone, Robert L.; Wiesen, Sarah E. – Cognitive Science, 2014
How does perceptual learning take place early in life? Traditionally, researchers have focused on how infants make use of information within displays to organize it, but recently, increasing attention has been paid to the question of how infants perceive objects differently depending upon their recent interactions with the objects. This experiment…
Descriptors: Infants, Inferences, Prior Learning, Toys
Horm, Diane; Norris, Deborah; Perry, Deborah; Chazan-Cohen, Rachel; Halle, Tamara – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2016
This report summarizes research about development during the first 3 years of life. It highlights research in domains that are foundational for later school readiness and success, including: (1) perceptual, motor, and physical development; (2) social and emotional development; (3) approaches to learning; (4) language and communication; and (5)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Infants, Toddlers, Young Children
de Campos, Ana Carolina; da Costa, Carolina Souza Neves; Savelsbergh, Geert J. P.; Rocha, Nelci Adriana Cicuto Ferreira – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
During infant development, objects and their functions are learned by means of active exploration. Factors that may influence exploration include reaching and grasping ability, object properties and the presence of developmental disorders. We assessed the development of exploratory actions in 16 typically-developing (TD) infants and 9 infants with…
Descriptors: Infants, Down Syndrome, Interaction, Child Development
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
Bhatt, Ramesh S.; Quinn, Paul C. – Infancy, 2011
Bhatt and Quinn (2011) review evidence indicating that learning plays a powerful role in the development of perceptual organization, and provide a theoretical framework for studying this process. The fact that prominent researchers in diverse areas of cognitive development and adult cognition have commented on this paper (Aslin, 2011; Goldstone,…
Descriptors: Infants, Developmental Stages, Cognitive Development, Perceptual Development
Bremner, J. Gavin – Infant and Child Development, 2011
This paper reviews progress over the past 20 years in four areas of research on infant perception and cognition. Work on perception of dynamic events has identified perceptual constraints on perception of object unity and object trajectory continuity that have led to a perceptual account of early development that supplements Nativist accounts.…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Child Development, Perceptual Development
Campos, Joseph J.; Witherington, David; Anderson, David I.; Frankel, Carl I.; Uchiyama, Ichiro; Barbu-Roth, Marianne – Child Development, 2008
This commentary endorses J. Kagan's (2008) conclusion that many of the most dramatic findings on early perceptual, cognitive, and social competencies are ambiguous. It supports his call for converging research operations to disambiguate findings from single paradigms and single response indices. The commentary also argues that early competencies…
Descriptors: Infants, Skill Development, Child Development, Perceptual Development
Aslin, Richard N. – Developmental Science, 2007
The most common behavioral technique used to study infant perception, cognition, language, and social development is some variant of looking time. Since its inception as a reliable method in the late 1950s, a tremendous increase in knowledge about infant competencies has been gained by inferences made from measures of looking time. Here we examine…
Descriptors: Infants, Inferences, Perception, Cognitive Development
Lewis, Michael; Goldberg, Susan – Merrill-Palmer Quart, 1969
Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Institute on Research and Training of Infant Development (Detroit, Mich., Feb. 15-17, 1968).
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Models, Parent Child Relationship

Leahy, Robert L. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Corneal infrared photography was used to record the visual fixations of 24 infants (4-6 weeks and 10-12 weeks) exposed to simple geometric figures. The results are discussed in relation to developmental changes in responsiveness to visual figures and in increasing ability to process information. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Infants, Perceptual Development

Ball, William A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1980
Data suggest that young infants (110-130 days old) process distinctive features of objects that continuously change orientation. The importance of these findings for theories of cognitive and perceptual development of infants is discussed. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Infants, Perceptual Development

Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Two experiments investigated the role of continuity cues in infants' perception of launching events as causal. Results indicated that younger subjects' perceptions of the particular object may influence perception of causality and that infants' use of cues to causality changes with age. (WP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Infants

Quinn, Paul C.; Eimas, Peter D.; Tarr, Michael – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Four experiments utilizing the familiarization-novelty preference procedure examined whether 3- and 4-month-olds could form categorical representations for cats versus dogs from the perceptual information available in silhouettes. Findings indicated that general shape or external contour information centered about the head was sufficient for…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Infants