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In Defense of Core Competencies, Quantitative Change, and Continuity
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Quinn, Paul C. – Child Development, 2008
J. Kagan (2008) urges contemporary developmentalists to (a) be cautious when attributing conceptual knowledge to infants based on looking-time performance, (b) constrain their interpretation of infant performance with multiple methodologies, and (c) reconsider the possibility that qualitative development may be the path by which perceptual infants…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Infant Behavior, Concept Formation
Echoic Storage in Infant Perception.
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Cowan, Nelson; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Investigates preperceptual auditory storage among eight 9-week-old infants in three experiments using a modification of an adult masking paradigm and a nonnutritive sucking discrimination procedure. Results suggest that echoic storage contributes to auditory perception in infancy and, for infants compared to adults, echoic traces have a longer…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis
Perceptual Priming for Upright and Inverted Faces in Infants and Adults.
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Webb, Sara J.; Nelson, Charles A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Used event-related potentials to novel and primed upright and inverted faces to examine evidence of repetition priming in 6-month-olds. Found that repeated faces demonstrated greater negativity than novel faces, and upright faces demonstrated greater negativity than inverted faces. Comparisons with adults tested in a similar experiment support the…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants
Absolute Pitch in Infant Auditory Learning: Evidence for Developmental Reorganization.
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Saffran, Jenny R.; Griepentrog, Gregory J. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Two experiments examined 8-month-olds' use of absolute and relative pitch cues in a tone-sequence statistical learning task. Results suggest that, given unsegmented stimuli that do not conform to rules of musical composition, infants are more likely to track patterns of absolute pitches than of relative pitches. A third experiment found that adult…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis
The Role of the Object Concept in Visual Tracking: Child-Like Errors in Adults.
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Chromiak, Walter; Weisberg, Robert W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Adults' ability to track a moving target was examined in two experiments in order to compare their performance with that of very young infants. Results indicated that (1) adults'"overshoot" errors resembled those reported for young infants; and (2) adults had problems tracking a moving target which unexpectedly changed direction. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Error Patterns
Social Perception and Peer Group Interaction in Infancy. Final Report.
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Brooks, Jeanne – 1974
This paper presents two studies of the development of social competencies in infancy. In the first experiment, the central issue investigated was whether facial configuration or height is utilized by infants to respond differentially to children and adults. Five different strangers, a male and a female child, a male and a female adult, and a small…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Body Height, Children