Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 78, Issue 1, Pages 3-24Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2000.2598
Keywords
infant perception; infant cognition; representation (graphic); memory; object perception
Funding
- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH &HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R29HD032129] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD32129] Funding Source: Medline
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Six experiments investigated how 4.5-month-old infants' perception of a display is affected by an immediate prior experience with an object similar to part of the test display. Prior research (A. Needham & R. Baillargeon. 1998) showed that when infants see an object alone and then see it next to a novel object, this prior experience allows them to determine the location of a boundary between the two objects. The present experiments investigated whether infants would also use an object similar, but not identical, to a test object in the same hind of task. The results indicate th;lt infants' use of a prior experience is disrupted by changes in the features of the object, but nut by a change in its spatial orientation. These findings suggest that, like adults, infants may expect that changes in the features of an object are associated with a change in the identity of the object, but do not have the same expectation for changes in spatial orientation. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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