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Nicholls, Andrea L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Two experiments examined children's ability to use lengths of lines on a page to show orientations of object surfaces. Found that five- and six-year olds are more reluctant to depart from actual object proportions than seven- and eight-year olds, but children in both age groups can foreshorten line lengths to indicate surfaces receding from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Freehand Drawing, Perceptual Development, Psychomotor Skills
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Bushnell, Emily W.; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Examined the ability of 1-year olds to remember the location of nonvisible targets. Found that infants were able to associate a nonvisible target with a direct landmark and to code its distance and direction with respect to themselves or the larger framework. Difficulty of coding with indirect landmarks was associated with cognitive complexity and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cues, Infants
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Haight, Wendy; Sachs, Katherine – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Examined nine infants' pretend play with mothers to determine pretend play's impact on children's emerging understanding of emotions so necessary to concepts of self. Found that the combination of talk and enactment characteristic of pretend play may facilitate communication about emotions--particularly fear and anger--that may be considered…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Fear, Nonverbal Communication, Parent Child Relationship
Fishler, Karol; Koch, Richard – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
Comparison of the mental status of 30 subjects with Down's Syndrome mosaicism and 30 matched subjects with trisomy 21 Down's Syndrome found that the mean intelligent quotient of the mosaic Down's Syndrome group was significantly higher and that this group showed better verbal abilities and more normal visual-perceptual skills. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Downs Syndrome, Genetics, Intelligence
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Schumann-Hengsteler, Ruth – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
Two studies investigated the effect of age on memory for visual and spatial information. Five to 10 year olds were asked to reconstruct a previously seen spatial arrangement of objects. The association between an object's identity and its location was weaker for younger than for older children. (LB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Foreign Countries, Memory
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Dannemiller, James L.; Freedland, Robert L. – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Assessed infants' detection of relative motion between a target and its surrounding static reference features in two experiments. Found evidence for 8- and 20-week-olds' detection of a moving target, and a target and surrounding reference features moving in opposite directions. Twenty-week-olds detected a target that moved faster and in the same…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Eye Fixations, Infants
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Pickens, Jeffrey – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Sixty-four infants viewed side-by-side videotapes of toy trains (in four visual conditions) and listened to sounds at increasing or decreasing amplitude designed to match one of the videos. Results suggested that five-month olds were sensitive to auditory-visual distance relations and that change in size was an important visual depth cue. (MDM)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cues, Depth Perception, Distance
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Fabricius, William V.; Wellman, Henry M. – Child Development, 1993
Investigated 4-6 year olds' ability to compare the distances covered by a direct and an indirect route to a location. Although many children believed that both routes covered the same distance, about 40% of the four year olds could explain why the direct route was shorter. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Distance, Early Childhood Education, Perceptual Development
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Wislock, Robert F. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1993
Learners' preferred perceptual modalities--the means through which they obtain information--need to be considered in instruction design. Two strategies to individualize instruction are a multisensory approach and point-of-intervention approach. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Individualized Instruction
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Dondi, Marco; Simion, Francesca; Caltran, Giovanna – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two experiments tested whether newborns could discriminate their own and another newborn's cry. Results indicated that awake newborns expressed facial distress more frequently and longer to another newborn's cry than to their own. Sucking decreased significantly between pretest phase and first minute of another infant's cry. Asleep infants'…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Crying, Discrimination Learning, Emotional Response
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Cestnick, Laurie; Coltheart, Max – Cognition, 1999
Measured nonword reading, exception word reading, and performance with Ternus apparent movement displays (the perception of which is believed to depend upon the magnocellular and parvocellular pathways) in dyslexic children and children without reading difficulties. Found that Ternus task performance was related to nonword reading ability but not…
Descriptors: Brain, Children, Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia
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Johnson, Mark H. – Child Development, 2000
Maintains that one future direction for cognitive development research involves a closer integration with knowledge about the developing brain. Presents a framework for analyzing and interpreting postnatal functional brain development. Discusses three contributing hypotheses, within which a variety of phenomena associated with the neural basis of…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Infants
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Shi, Rushen; Werker, Janet F.; Morgan, James L. – Cognition, 1999
Presented neonates with lexical and grammatical words prepared from natural maternal speech. Found that neonates could categorically discriminate the sets based on a constellation of perceptual cues that distinguished them. Suggested that this ability to discriminate words on basis of multiple acoustic/phonological cues provides a perceptual base…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cues
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Schwarzer, Gudrun; Massaro, Dominic W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Two experiments studied whether and how 5-year-olds integrate single facial features to identify faces. Results indicated that children could evaluate and integrate information from eye and mouth features to identify a face when salience of features was varied. A weighted Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception fit better than a Single Channel Model,…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Models
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Lickliter, Robert; Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Honeycutt, Hunter – Infancy, 2004
Information presented concurrently and redundantly to 2 or more senses (intersensory redundancy) has been shown to recruit attention and promote perceptual learning of amodal stimulus properties in animal embryos and human infants. This study examined whether the facilitative effect of intersensory redundancy also extends to the domain of memory.…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Attention, Infants, Memory
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