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Schreij, Daniel; Olivers, Christian N. L. – Cognition, 2009
Previous research has revealed that we create and maintain mental representations for perceived objects on the basis of their spatiotemporal continuity. An important question is what type of information can be maintained within these so-called object files. We provide evidence that object files retain specific attentional control settings for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Visualization, Spatial Ability, Time Perspective
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Apperly, Ian A.; Back, Elisa; Samson, Dana; France, Lisa – Cognition, 2008
Much of what we know about other people's beliefs comes non-inferentially from what people tell us. Developmental research suggests that 3-year-olds have difficulty processing such information: they suffer interference from their own knowledge of reality when told about someone's false belief (e.g., [Wellman, H. M., & Bartsch, K. (1988). Young…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Validity, Cognitive Structures, Misconceptions
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Stone, Anna; Valentine, Tim – Cognition, 2007
Knowledge of familiar people is essential to guide social interaction, yet there is uncertainty about whether semantic knowledge for people is stored in a categorical structure as for objects. Four priming experiments using hard-to-perceive primes investigated whether occupation forms a category connecting famous persons in semantic memory. Primes…
Descriptors: Memory, Semantics, Prompting, Reputation
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Saxe, Rebecca; Tzelnic, Tania; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2006
Infants know that humans are exempt from some of the principles that govern the motion of inanimate objects: for instance, humans can be caused to move without being struck. In the current study, we report that infants nevertheless do apply some of the same principles to both humans and objects, where appropriate. Five-month-old infants expect…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Ability, Object Permanence
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Bloom, Paul – Cognition, 1996
Claims that people determine whether something is a member of a given artifact kind by inferring that it was successfully created with the intention that it belong to that kind. Discusses function-based and intentional-historical accounts of artifact concepts. Concludes that a rich set of inferential capacities is needed to constitute a theory of…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
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Jackendoff, Ray; Lerdahl, Fred – Cognition, 2006
We explore the capacity for music in terms of five questions: (1) What cognitive structures are invoked by music? (2) What are the principles that create these structures? (3) How do listeners acquire these principles? (4) What pre-existing resources make such acquisition possible? (5) Which aspects of these resources are specific to music, and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Cognitive Structures, Music, Affective Behavior
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German, Tim P.; Hehman, Jessica A. – Cognition, 2006
Effective belief-desire reasoning requires both specialized representational capacities--the capacity to represent the mental states as such--as well as executive selection processes for accurate performance on tasks requiring the prediction and explanation of the actions of social agents. Compromised belief-desire reasoning in a given population…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Thinking Skills, Older Adults, Young Adults
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Behl-Chadha, Gundeep – Cognition, 1996
Examined three- to four-month-old infants' ability to form perceptually based categorical representation in the domains of natural kinds and artifacts. By showing the availability of perceptually driven basic and superordinate-like representations in early infancy that closely correspond to adult conceptual categories, findings underscored the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
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Harris, Paul L.; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Children ages 3 to 5 years old are observed in a series of 3 experiments assessing their use of counterfactual thinking in causal reasoning. Results suggest that young children readily interpret the cause of an outcome in terms of a contrast between the observed sequence of events, and a counterfactual alternative in which the outcome did not…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Needham, Amy; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognition, 2000
Summarizes findings on infants' capacity for object segregation. Maintains that infants can use featural and experiential information for segregation and individuation purposes long before 12 months of age. Disputes the claim that formation of object categories awaits early word learning, but acknowledges that language may play a key role in…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
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Xu, Fei; Carey, Susan – Cognition, 2000
Responds to Needham and Baillargeon's criticisms and offers an alternative resolution of the conflicting results between the laboratories regarding abilities of infants less than 12 months to use property/featural information for object individuation. Maintains that kind concepts are acquired as infants approach their first birthday and that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation