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Spaepen, Elizabet; Spelke, Elizabeth – Cognitive Psychology, 2007
Infants as young as 5 months of age view familiar actions such as reaching as goal-directed (Woodward, 1998), but how do they construe the goal of an actor's reach? Six experiments investigated whether 12-month-old infants represent reaching actions as directed to a particular individual object, to a narrowly defined object category (e.g., an…
Descriptors: Infants, Cognitive Development, Perception, Infant Behavior
Shutts, Kristin; Condry, Kirsten F.; Santos, Laurie R.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognition, 2009
Adults, preschool children, and nonhuman primates detect and categorize food objects according to substance information, conveyed primarily by color and texture. In contrast, they perceive and categorize artifacts primarily by shape and rigidity. The present experiments investigated the origins of this distinction. Using a looking time procedure,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Infants, Generalization, Adults
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Spelke, Elizabeth S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1989
In three studies, infants reached for objects as distinct units when the objects moved separately or were separated in space. Otherwise, infants reached for objects as one unit. In one study, patterns of dishabituation provided further evidence that separated or separately moving objects were perceived as distinct units. (RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Infants, Perception, Spatial Ability
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Streri, Arlette; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Child Development, 1989
After haptic habituation to a ring display, infants perceived the rings in two experiments as parts of one connected object. In both haptic and visual modes, infants appeared to perceive object unity by analyzing motion but not by analyzing figural goodness. (RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Infants, Motion, Perception
Smith, W. Carter; Johnson, Scott P.; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Cognitive Psychology, 2003
Although much evidence indicates that young infants perceive unitary objects by analyzing patterns of motion, infants' abilities to perceive object unity by analyzing Gestalt properties and by integrating distinct views of an object over time are in dispute. To address these controversies, four experiments investigated adults' and infants'…
Descriptors: Intervals, Infants, Motion, Experiments