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Yasamin Motamedi; Margherita Murgiano; Beata Grzyb; Yan Gu; Viktor Kewenig; Ricarda Brieke; Ed Donnellan; Chloe Marshall; Elizabeth Wonnacott; Pamela Perniss; Gabriella Vigliocco – Child Development, 2024
Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically available. One possibility is that iconic cues that imagistically evoke properties of absent referents support learning when referents are displaced. In an…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Development, Cues, Parent Child Relationship
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Moher, Mariko; Tuerk, Arin S.; Feigenson, Lisa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Although working memory has a highly constrained capacity limit of three or four items, both adults and toddlers can increase the total amount of stored information by "chunking" object representations in memory. To examine the developmental origins of chunking, we used a violation-of-expectation procedure to ask whether 7-month-old infants, whose…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Cues, Infants, Short Term Memory
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Shinskey, Jeanne L. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
In manual search tasks designed to assess infants' knowledge of the object concept, why does search for objects hidden by darkness precede search for objects hidden by visible occluders by several months? A graded representations account explains this decalage by proposing that the conflicting visual input from occluders directly competes with…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Cues, Infants, Concept Formation
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Bruce, Susan M. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2005
Most children who are congenitally deafblind are severely delayed in their communication development and many will not achieve symbolic understanding and expression. This article discusses developmental markers cited in the research literature as predictive of or facilitative of the development of symbolism. These markers include the growth toward…
Descriptors: Symbolic Learning, Cues, Object Permanence, Communication Disorders