Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 1242-1248Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.5.1242
Keywords
object representation; infant cognition; perception-action; object function
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R03 HD049143, F32 HD055040, R01 HD049840, R03 HD049143-01, HD055040, HD49840, HD49143, R01 HD049840-01A1, F32 HD055040-02] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH068934, F31 MH068934, MH64020, F31 MH068934-01A1, R03 MH064020-01A1, R03 MH064020] Funding Source: Medline
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The authors examined the relation between infants' motor skills and attention to objects features in events in which a hand acted on an object (e.g., squeezed it) that then produced a sound (e.g., squeaking). In this study, 6- to 7-month-old infants (N = 41) were habituated to a single event and then tested with changes in appearance and action. Infants robustly responded to changes in action, but as a group did not respond to changes in appearance. Moreover, more skilled activity with objects during naturalistic play was associated with longer looking in response to a change in appearance, but not to a change in action. Implications for the relation between perception and action in infancy are discussed.
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