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ERIC Number: EJ572343
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
Predictive Action in Infancy: Tracking and Reaching for Moving Objects.
von Hofsten, Claes; Vishton, Peter; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; Feng, Qi; Rosander, Kerstin
Cognition, v67 n3 p255-85 Jul 1998
Explored early-developing predictions of object motion through 6-month-old infants' head tracking and reaching for moving objects. Found evidence for infants' extrapolation of object motion on linear paths, in accord with principle of inertia. This tendency was remarkably resistant to counter-evidence, observed even after repeated presentations of an object that spontaneously stopped and then moved in a new direction. (EV)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motion, Prediction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Inertia (Physics)