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Mendoza, Jennifer K.; Fausey, Caitlin M. – Developmental Science, 2021
Infants enculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life, yet theories of how they do so rarely make contact with details about the sounds available in everyday life. Here, we report on properties of a ubiquitous early ecology in which foundational skills get built: music. We captured daylong recordings from 35 infants ages 6-12 months…
Descriptors: Infants, Music, Ecology, Learning Processes
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Matusevych, Yevgen; Schatz, Thomas; Kamper, Herman; Feldman, Naomi H.; Goldwater, Sharon – Cognitive Science, 2023
In the first year of life, infants' speech perception becomes attuned to the sounds of their native language. This process of early phonetic learning has traditionally been framed as phonetic category acquisition. However, recent studies have hypothesized that the attunement may instead reflect a perceptual space learning process that does not…
Descriptors: Infants, Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
David F. Lancy – Oxford University Press, 2024
In "Learning Without Lessons," David F. Lancy fills a rather large gap in the field of child development and education. Drawing on focused, empirical studies in cultural psychology, ethnographic accounts of childhood, and insights from archaeological studies, Lancy offers the first attempt to review the principles and practices for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Independent Study, Play
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Suarez-Rivera, Catalina; Linn, Emily; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Language Learning, 2022
Infants build knowledge by acting on the world. We conducted an ecologically grounded test of an embodied learning hypothesis: that infants' active engagement with objects in the home environment elicits caregiver naming and cascades to learning object names. Our home-based study extends laboratory-based theories to identify real-world processes…
Descriptors: Infants, Video Technology, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship
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Kaplan, Peter S.; Werner, John S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Tests infants' dual-process performance (a process mediating response decrements called habituation and a state-dependent process mediating response increments called sensitization) on visual habituation-dishabituation tasks. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attention, Habituation, Infants, Learning Processes
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Macnamara, John – Psychological Review, 1972
Presents evidence to support theory that infants learn their language by first determining, independent of language, the meaning which a speaker intends to convey... and by then working out the relationship between the meaning and the expression they heard. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
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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
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
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