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Peer reviewedHuntley-Fenner, Gavin; Carey, Susan; Solimando, Andrea – Cognition, 2002
Two experiments probed 8-month-olds' ability to represent different kinds of entities: rigid, cohesive objects; flexible, cohesive objects; and non-rigid, non-cohesive portions of sand. Results suggest that the processes by which infants individuate and track entities are sensitive to material kind, rigid cohesive objects occupy a privileged…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Infants, Models
Peer reviewedHespos, Susan J.; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognition, 2001
Four experiments examined very young infants' expectations about containment events. Found that 2- to 3.5-month-olds recognized that objects could be lowered inside a container with an open but not a closed top. Three-and-a-half-month-olds realized that objects could not pass through the container's back wall and should have moved with it to a new…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Expectation, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedMareschal, Denis; French, Robert M.; Quinn, Paul C. – Developmental Psychology, 2000
Describes connectionist model showing exclusivity asymmetries when categorizing visual stimuli, similar to pattern shown by infants. Examines asymmetries in terms of an associative learning mechanism, distributed internal representations, and statistics of feature distributions in the stimuli. Details test of model with infants, finding that…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedWachs, Theodore D.; Chan, Alice – Child Development, 1986
Reveals that different aspects of the environment differentially contributed to variability in communication performance of one-year-old infants. Findings support the environmental specificity hypothesis and underline the need to consider physical environmental parameters when investigating environmental influences. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Environmental Influences, Infant Behavior, Models
Peer reviewedCourage, Mary L.; Howe, Mark L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Examined effect of familiarization on 3.5-month-olds' retention of visual stimuli with varying delay times. Found support for retention models in which direction of attentional preferences (novel, familiar, or null) depends on memory accessibility. Short lookers showed better retention over time than long lookers, indicating that much of the…
Descriptors: Attention, Familiarity, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedOakes, Lisa M.; Madole, Kelly L. – Child Development, 2000
Calls for a process-oriented approach to study of categorization in infancy. Maintains that further understanding of infant categorization and its changes with development requires a more direct assessment of infants' category formation. Argues that two research directions will enhance understanding of categorization: (1) contextual variations on…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
