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Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan – Cognitive Psychology, 1996
Five experiments using the visual habitation paradigm with 158 infants demonstrated that these 10-month olds did not use property/kind information to establish representations of 2 numerically distinct objects, a finding that provided support for the object-first hypothesis. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Lewis, Michael; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Intelligence, 1981
The predictive power of various cognitive skills at three months of age in terms of later cognitive functioning was examined. Visual habituation and recovery predicted later intellectual functioning at 24 months better than global intelligence or object permanence scores. Changes in cognitive functioning may be a transformation of skills.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Infants
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Jacobson, Sandra W.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Six-month-old African-American infants' expectation of a visual stimulus was related to developmental measures. Reaction time was related to eye fixation in tests that measured visual recognition memory (VRM) and presented objects of different shapes to the infant. Reaction time and infants' stimulus expectation predicted VRM novelty preference.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Expectation, Eye Fixations