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Antrilli, Nick K.; Wang, Su-hua – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
Although action experience has been shown to enhance the development of spatial cognition, the mechanism underlying the effects of action is still unclear. The present research examined the role of visual cues generated during action in promoting infants' mental rotation. We sought to clarify the underlying mechanism by decoupling different…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Stimuli, Infants, Cognitive Processes
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Scott, Rose M.; Baillargeon, Renee; Song, Hyun-joo; Leslie, Alan M. – Cognitive Psychology, 2010
Reports that infants in the second year of life can attribute false beliefs to others have all used a "search" paradigm in which an agent with a false belief about an object's location searches for the object. The present research asked whether 18-month-olds would still demonstrate false-belief understanding when tested with a novel "non-search"…
Descriptors: Infants, Generalization, Toddlers, Attribution Theory
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Hund, Alycia M.; Foster, Emily K. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Two experiments examined the flexibility and stability with which children and adults organize locations into categories on the basis of object relatedness. Seven-, 9-, and 11-year-olds and adults learned the locations of 20 objects belonging to 4 categories. Displacement patterns revealed that children and adults used object cues to organize the…
Descriptors: Cues, Children, Adults, Experiments