Rebecca J Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 1464545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca J Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca J |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Dakota State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4589-1447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Chimpanzee Child
In 1931, American Museum of Natural History curator Henry Cushier Raven returned from a collecting trip to West Africa with a young chimpanzee named Meshie. He raised her alongside his human children, filming scenes of supposed interspecies domestic harmony for public consumption. As Meshie matured, the conditions of captivity underlying her presence in the Raven household became painfully apparent. Meshie was banished to Brookfield Zoo in Chicag…
Beauty or Statistics
Infants distinguish and represent pattern as an object feature from externally generated patterns superimposed on real, 3‐dimensional objects' surfaces
As infants form object representations, the patterns viewed on objects' surfaces may be challenging to decipher because these patterns may be created from the surface reflectance of an object (an object property) or from an external source, such as a cast shadow. We tested 7 1⁄2‐month‐old infants' use of cues that specify the source of patterns seen on the surfaces of real, 3‐dimensional objects to individuate those objects. Results suggest that …
Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences
The Herds Shot Round the World
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces h…
From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible
During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent with efforts to improve and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work …
Infant Preference for Natural Texture Statistics is Modulated by Contrast Polarity
Adult observers are sensitive to statistical regularities present in natural images. Developmentally, research has shown that children do not show sensitivity to these natural regularities until approximately 8–10 years of age. This finding is surprising given that even infants gradually encode a range of high‐level statistical regularities of their visual environment in the first year of life, We suggest that infants may in fact exhibit sensitiv…
A New Zealand Book of Beasts
Posture support improves object individuation in infants
A hierarchical progression in infants' ability to use surface features, such as color, as a basis for object individuation in the first year has been well established (Tremoulet, Leslie, & Hall, 2000; Wilcox, 1999). There is evidence, however, that infants' sensitivity to surface features can be increased through multisensory (i.e., visuohaptic) exploration of objects (Wilcox, Woods, Chapa, & McCurry, 2007). Three studies were conducted to invest…
Priming infants to use pattern information in an object individuation task
There is evidence that 4.5-month-olds do not always use surface pattern to individuate objects but that they can be primed to attend to pattern differences through select experiences. For example, if infants are first shown events in which the pattern of an object predicts its function (dotted containers pound and striped containers pour), they will attend to pattern differences in a subsequent individuation task. However, 4.5-month-olds must see…
Covariation of color and luminance facilitate object individuation in infancy
The ability to individuate objects is one of our most fundamental cognitive capacities. Recent research has revealed that when objects vary in color or luminance alone, infants fail to individuate those objects until 11.5 months. However, color and luminance frequently covary in the natural environment, thus providing a more salient and reliable indicator of distinct objects. For this reason, we propose that infants may be more likely to individu…
Sex Differences in Infants’ Visual Interest in Toys
Multisensory exploration and object individuation in infancy
Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select experiences. Five experiments were conducted with 10.5- and 9.5-month-olds. The results revealed that mult…
Shake, Rattle, and … One or Two Objects? Young Infants' Use of Auditory Information to Individuate Objects
Most research on object individuation in infants has focused on the visual domain. Yet the problem of object individuation is not unique to the visual system, but shared by other sensory modalities. This research examined 4.5‐month‐old infants' capacity to use auditory information to individuate objects. Infants were presented with events in which they heard 2 distinct sounds, separated by a temporal gap, emanate from behind a wide screen; the sc…
Sex Differences in Infants’ Visual Interest in Toys
The Herds Shot Round the World
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces h…
Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences
From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible
During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent with efforts to improve and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work …
Multisensory exploration and object individuation in infancy
Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select experiences. Five experiments were conducted with 10.5- and 9.5-month-olds. The results revealed that mult…
Covariation of color and luminance facilitate object individuation in infancy
The ability to individuate objects is one of our most fundamental cognitive capacities. Recent research has revealed that when objects vary in color or luminance alone, infants fail to individuate those objects until 11.5 months. However, color and luminance frequently covary in the natural environment, thus providing a more salient and reliable indicator of distinct objects. For this reason, we propose that infants may be more likely to individu…
Posture support improves object individuation in infants
A hierarchical progression in infants' ability to use surface features, such as color, as a basis for object individuation in the first year has been well established (Tremoulet, Leslie, & Hall, 2000; Wilcox, 1999). There is evidence, however, that infants' sensitivity to surface features can be increased through multisensory (i.e., visuohaptic) exploration of objects (Wilcox, Woods, Chapa, & McCurry, 2007). Three studies were conducted to invest…
Priming infants to use pattern information in an object individuation task
There is evidence that 4.5-month-olds do not always use surface pattern to individuate objects but that they can be primed to attend to pattern differences through select experiences. For example, if infants are first shown events in which the pattern of an object predicts its function (dotted containers pound and striped containers pour), they will attend to pattern differences in a subsequent individuation task. However, 4.5-month-olds must see…
Shake, Rattle, and … One or Two Objects? Young Infants' Use of Auditory Information to Individuate Objects
Most research on object individuation in infants has focused on the visual domain. Yet the problem of object individuation is not unique to the visual system, but shared by other sensory modalities. This research examined 4.5‐month‐old infants' capacity to use auditory information to individuate objects. Infants were presented with events in which they heard 2 distinct sounds, separated by a temporal gap, emanate from behind a wide screen; the sc…
Multisensory exploration and object individuation in infancy
Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select experiences. Five experiments were conducted with 10.5- and 9.5-month-olds. The results revealed that mult…
Sex Differences in Infants’ Visual Interest in Toys
Covariation of color and luminance facilitate object individuation in infancy
The ability to individuate objects is one of our most fundamental cognitive capacities. Recent research has revealed that when objects vary in color or luminance alone, infants fail to individuate those objects until 11.5 months. However, color and luminance frequently covary in the natural environment, thus providing a more salient and reliable indicator of distinct objects. For this reason, we propose that infants may be more likely to individu…
Priming infants to use pattern information in an object individuation task
There is evidence that 4.5-month-olds do not always use surface pattern to individuate objects but that they can be primed to attend to pattern differences through select experiences. For example, if infants are first shown events in which the pattern of an object predicts its function (dotted containers pound and striped containers pour), they will attend to pattern differences in a subsequent individuation task. However, 4.5-month-olds must see…
Posture support improves object individuation in infants
A hierarchical progression in infants' ability to use surface features, such as color, as a basis for object individuation in the first year has been well established (Tremoulet, Leslie, & Hall, 2000; Wilcox, 1999). There is evidence, however, that infants' sensitivity to surface features can be increased through multisensory (i.e., visuohaptic) exploration of objects (Wilcox, Woods, Chapa, & McCurry, 2007). Three studies were conducted to invest…
Infant Preference for Natural Texture Statistics is Modulated by Contrast Polarity
Adult observers are sensitive to statistical regularities present in natural images. Developmentally, research has shown that children do not show sensitivity to these natural regularities until approximately 8–10 years of age. This finding is surprising given that even infants gradually encode a range of high‐level statistical regularities of their visual environment in the first year of life, We suggest that infants may in fact exhibit sensitiv…
A New Zealand Book of Beasts
From Colonial Animal to Imperial Edible
During the nineteenth century, efforts to feed Britain’s growing industrial and urban population enrolled vast swaths of the Southern Hemisphere in producing meat for British tables. This system relied on refrigerated shipping and was concurrent with efforts to improve and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work …
Parents’ Influence on Infants’ Gender-Typed Toy Preferences
The Herds Shot Round the World
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces h…
Infants distinguish and represent pattern as an object feature from externally generated patterns superimposed on real, 3‐dimensional objects' surfaces
As infants form object representations, the patterns viewed on objects' surfaces may be challenging to decipher because these patterns may be created from the surface reflectance of an object (an object property) or from an external source, such as a cast shadow. We tested 7 1⁄2‐month‐old infants' use of cues that specify the source of patterns seen on the surfaces of real, 3‐dimensional objects to individuate those objects. Results suggest that …
Beauty or Statistics
Chimpanzee Child
In 1931, American Museum of Natural History curator Henry Cushier Raven returned from a collecting trip to West Africa with a young chimpanzee named Meshie. He raised her alongside his human children, filming scenes of supposed interspecies domestic harmony for public consumption. As Meshie matured, the conditions of captivity underlying her presence in the Raven household became painfully apparent. Meshie was banished to Brookfield Zoo in Chicag…
Psychology (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Communication (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)