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Imada, Toshie; Carlson, Stephanie M.; Itakura, Shoji – Developmental Science, 2013
Accumulating evidence suggests that North Americans tend to focus on central objects whereas East Asians tend to pay more attention to contextual information in a visual scene. Although it is generally believed that such culturally divergent attention tendencies develop through socialization, existing evidence largely depends on adult samples.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Context Effect, Early Childhood Education, Evidence
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Troseth, Georgene L.; Pickard, Megan E. Bloom; Deloache, Judy S. – Developmental Science, 2007
Using a symbolic object such as a model as a source of information about something else requires some appreciation of the relation between the symbol and what it represents. Representational insight has been proposed as essential to success in a symbolic retrieval task in which children must use information from a hiding event in a scale model to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Models, Knowledge Representation, Schematic Studies
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Striano, Tricia; Henning, Anne; Stahl, Daniel – Developmental Science, 2005
Infants' sensitivity to social contingencies was assessed. In Study 1, 1-month-old infants and their mothers interacted face-to-face in three types of imperfect contingent interactions: Normal, Non-Contingent and Imitation. One-month-old infants did not discriminate these conditions. In Study 2, 3-month-old infants were tested as in Study 1. At 3…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Imitation, Mothers
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Casenhiser, Devin; Goldberg, Adele E. – Developmental Science, 2005
This is the first study to investigate experimentally how children come to learn mappings between novel phrasal forms and novel meanings: a central task in learning a language. Two experiments are reported. In both studies 5- to 7-year-old children watched a short set of video clips depicting objects appearing in various ways. Each scene was…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Experiments, Video Technology