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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 1513-1522Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.6.1513
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infancy; perception and action; experience; physical variables; choice tasks
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Four experiments examined whether infants' use of task-relevant information in an action task could be facilitated by visual experience in the laboratory. Twelve- but not 9-month-old infants spontaneously used height information and chose an appropriate (taller) cover in search of a hidden tall toy. After watching examples of covering events in a teaching session, 9-month-old infants succeeded in an action task that involved the same event category; learning was not generalized to events from a different category. The present results demonstrate that learning through visual experience can be transferred to infants' subsequent actions. These findings shed light on the link between perception and action in infancy.
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