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Benitez, Viridiana L.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognition, 2012
Expectancy-based localized attention has been shown to promote the formation and retrieval of multisensory memories in adults. Three experiments show that these processes also characterize attention and learning in 16- to 18-month old infants and, moreover, that these processes may play a critical role in supporting early object name learning. The…
Descriptors: Infants, Object Permanence, Prediction, Language Acquisition
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Gregory, Emma; McCloskey, Michael – Cognition, 2010
Perceiving the orientation of objects is important for interacting with the world, yet little is known about the mental representation or processing of object orientation information. The tendency of humans and other species to confuse mirror images provides a potential clue. However, the appropriate characterization of this phenomenon is not…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Interaction, Experiments
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Luo, Yuyan; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognition, 2007
The present research examined whether 12.5-month-old infants take into account what objects an agent knows to be present in a scene when interpreting the agent's actions. In two experiments, the infants watched a female human agent repeatedly reach for and grasp object-A as opposed to object-B on an apparatus floor. Object-B was either (1) visible…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Object Permanence
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Mendes, Natacha; Rakoczy, Hannes; Call, Josep – Cognition, 2008
Developmental research suggests that whereas very young infants individuate objects purely on spatiotemporal grounds, from (at latest) around 1 year of age children are capable of individuating objects according to the kind they belong to and the properties they instantiate. As the latter ability has been found to correlate with language, some…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Infants, Primatology, Developmental Stages
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Saiki, Jun; Miyatsuji, Hirofumi – Cognition, 2007
Memory for feature binding comprises a key ingredient in coherent object representations. Previous studies have been equivocal about human capacity for objects in the visual working memory. To evaluate memory for feature binding, a type identification paradigm was devised and used with a multiple-object permanence tracking task. Using objects…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Short Term Memory, Models, Object Permanence
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Hespos, Susan J.; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognition, 2006
In the present research, 6-month-old infants consistently searched for a tall toy behind a tall as opposed to a short occluder. However, when the same toy was hidden inside a tall or a short container, only older, 7.5-month-old infants searched for the tall toy inside the tall container. These and control results (1) confirm previous…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Object Permanence
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Rosander, Kerstin; von Hofsten, Claes – Cognition, 2004
The emerging ability to represent an oscillating moving object over occlusions was studied in 7-21-week-old infants. The object moved at 0.25 Hz and was either occluded at the center of the trajectory (for 0.3 s) or at one turning point (for 0.7 s). Each trial lasted for 20 s. Both eye and head movements were measured. By using two kinds of…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Object Permanence
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Harris, Irina M.; Dux, Paul E. – Cognition, 2005
The question of whether object recognition is orientation-invariant or orientation-dependent was investigated using a repetition blindness (RB) paradigm. In RB, the second occurrence of a repeated stimulus is less likely to be reported, compared to the occurrence of a different stimulus, if it occurs within a short time of the first presentation.…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Blindness, Models, Object Permanence
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Wang, Su-hua; Baillargeon, Renee; Brueckner, Laura – Cognition, 2004
The present research examined alternative accounts of prior violation-of-expectation (VOE) reports that young infants can represent and reason about hidden objects. According to these accounts, young infants' apparent success in these VOE tasks reflects only novelty and familiarity preferences induced by the habituation or familiarization trials…
Descriptors: Infants, Thinking Skills, Expectation, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Carey, Susan; Xu, Fei – Cognition, 2001
Examines evidence that the research community studying infants' object concept and the community concerned with adult object-based attention have been studying the same natural kind. Maintains that the discovery that the object representations of young infants are the same as the object files of mid-level visual cognition has implications for both…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Attention Control, Cognitive Development