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HELD, RICHARD; WHITE, BURTON L. – 1966
FINDINGS WERE REPORTED ON THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE SKILLS NECESSARY FOR VISUALLY DIRECTED REACHING. THE SKILLS INVOLVED WERE THE ORIENTING, ACCOMMODATING, AND PURSUIT RESPONSES OF THE EYES, ALL OF WHICH ARE ACHIEVED DURING THE FIRST HALF-YEAR OF LIFE. SEVERAL EXPERIMENTAL CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE ENVIRONMENT OF A GROUP OF…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Experience, Enrichment, Environmental Influences
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Richards, John E.; Rader, Nancy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1981
Two experiments tested the effects of crawling-onset age, amount of crawling experience, and testing age on avoidance of the deep side of a visual cliff apparatus by human infants. Crawling-onset age disciminated between infants because crawling during the tactile phase interferes with later visual control of locomotion. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Depth Perception, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development
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Schmuckler, Mark A.; Fairhall, Jennifer L. – Child Development, 2001
Three experiments explored 5- and 7-month-olds' intermodal coordination of proprioceptive information produced by leg movements and visual movement information specifying these same motions. Results suggested that coordination of visual and proprioceptive inputs is constrained by infants' information processing of the displays and have…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior
Ogura, Tamiko – 1987
The development of and relationship between early language, symbolic play, sensorimotor skills, and social development were examined in a longitudinal study conducted in Japan with two young autistic males who were observed from the approximate ages of 2 to 4 years in clinic, day care, and home settings. One child acquired speech; the other did…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Autism, Case Studies, Echolalia
Curcio, Frank; And Others – 1969
This paper describes the purposes and procedures of a longitudinal study designed to: (1) relate mother-infant interaction patterns to infant age, sex, and social class; (2) relate mother-infant interaction patterns to infant sensory-motor development; and (3) to examine the relationship between infant sensory-motor development and infant sex and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Infant Behavior
O'Connell, Dorothy, Comp.; And Others – 1976
This research bulletin includes reports of research in progress or recently completed from September 1975 through February 1976. Each entry includes information concerning the investigators, purpose, subjects, methods, duration, cooperating groups, and findings (if available). The reports are listed under several topical headings: (1) Long-Term…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Abuse, Child Development