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Bhat, Ajaz A.; Samuelson, Larissa K.; Spencer, John P. – Child Development, 2023
The interaction of visual exploration and auditory processing is central to early cognitive development, supporting object discrimination, categorization, and word learning. Research has shown visual-auditory interactions to be complex, created from multiple processes and changing over multiple timescales. To better understand these interactions,…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Attention, Cognitive Development
Morse, Anthony F.; Cangelosi, Angelo – Cognitive Science, 2017
Most theories of learning would predict a gradual acquisition and refinement of skills as learning progresses, and while some highlight exponential growth, this fails to explain why natural cognitive development typically progresses in stages. Models that do span multiple developmental stages typically have parameters to "switch" between…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Learning Theories

Kagan, Jerome – Young Children, 1979
Identifies and discusses a change in the theoretical bases of contemporary psychologists' views of infant development: the replacement of the constructs of energy, drive, and motive with cognitive constructs. (CM)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Infants
Sutton-Smith, Brian – 1979
Piaget's early contribution to theorizing about play is discussed critically with reference to three major interrelated problems. These are: (1) that despite their equipotentiality in Piaget's theory of intelligence, imitation and play are not conceptualized as making an equal contribution to cognition, play taking a subordinate role; (2) that…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Imitation, Infants
Gratch, Gerald – 1975
This paper describes a series of longitudinal experiments which dealt with the development of object awareness in infants, ages 6-18 months. The experiments were designed to document and evaluate Piaget's account of this development. The studies focused on two types of phenomena: (1) when infants first find an object hidden in one place, they will…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Infant Behavior, Infants

Osherson, Daniel N. – Cognition, 1978
Human infants are predisposed to organize their experience in terms of certain concepts (natural) and not others (unnatural). Three formal, necessary conditions on the naturalness of concepts are offered. The conditions attempt to link the problem of naturalness to principled distinctions between sense vs nonsense, simplicity vs complexity, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts
Ohr, Phyllis S.; Fagen, Jeffrey W. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
The ability of 10 9-month-old infants with Down's syndrome to acquire a simple contingency was assessed. Unlike a group of nondisabled infants, the Down's syndrome infants did not, in general, learn the contingency. Results are related to the possibility of a decline in conditionability with age and a relationship between conditionability and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development

Kessen, William; Reznick, J. Steven – Cognitive Development, 1993
Reviews "The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition" (S. Carey and R. Gelman, editors), a collection of essays that present a hard-scientific vision of cognitive development. Examines the arguments this work articulates and then determines the place it occupies in the analysis of the state of developmental psychology as presented in…
Descriptors: Biology, Book Reviews, Child Development, Child Psychology

Ninio, Anat – Cognition, 1979
Piaget's theory of space perception is presented in the format of a hypothetico-deductive system. Eleven hypotheses regarding infants' space perception are defined, and Piaget's evidence for each is summarized. Presuppositions underlying the arguments are explicated. Critical notes are inserted and general conclusions are briefly discussed.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior
Papousek, Hanus – 1966
Studies on learning in infants show that in infancy every month of life represents a new level of learning. The functional state of the central nervous system can be influenced by physiological factors which cause fluctuating changes in functions important for learning. Once a stimulus becomes a conditioned signal, it acquires strong power in…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Infants, Learning Processes
Scholnick, Ellin K., Ed.; Nelson, Katherine, Ed.; Gelman, Susan A., Ed.; Miller, Patricia H., Ed. – 1999
Based on the papers presented at the 1996 Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society and highlighting the extent to which Piaget's ideas have served to scaffold contemporary thinking about every aspect of conceptual development, this volume examines the nature of conceptual development, its foundations, and the sources of its novelties. The chapters…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development

Norris, Janet A. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
Five principles of learning for young children with handicaps (functioning below a developmental age of one year) are presented, with descriptions of strategies that can be used to facilitate ascendance to higher levels of cognitive-social-communicative functioning. The principles include frequent adult-child interactions, meaningful context for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – 1997
This book articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development: the idea that very young children just beginning to talk are engaged in profound restructurings of several domains of their knowledge. These restructurings are analogous to theory changes. The children's early semantic development is closely tied…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Children, Classification
Lewis, Michael; Goldberg, Susan – 1968
Twenty infants, 12 weeks of age, were subjects in an experiment to test the effects of maternal behavior on their perceptual-cognitive development. Each mother and child were observed in a controlled naturalistic setting, every 10 seconds their various behaviors were recorded, and then the mother was interviewed. During an experimental session the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior