Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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917529 | Infant Behavior and Development | 2009 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Object individuation, the capacity to track the identity of objects when perceptual contact is lost and then regained, is fundamental to human cognition. A great deal of research using the violation-of-expectation method has been conducted to investigate the development of object individuation in infancy. At the same time, there is a growing need for converging methods of study. Reported here are data obtained with from a newly developed search task that can be used with infants as young as 5 months of age. The results suggest that this method is a sensitive measure of object individuation in young infants and demonstrate the advantages of using converging methods of study.
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Authors
Sarah McCurry, Teresa Wilcox, Rebecca Woods,