Neil E Berthier
Biographic Data
| ID | 5759912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil E Berthier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil E |
| FAMILY NAME | Berthier |
| SIGNATURE | BERTHIER N E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2867-9249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What do two-year-olds understand about hidden-object events
Preferential-looking studies suggest that by 2 months of age, infants may have knowledge about some object properties, such as solidity. Manual search studies of toddlers examining these same concepts, however, have failed to provide evidence for the same understanding. Investigators have recently attempted to reconcile this disparity but failed to control for the visual novelty of test outcomes. The current design corrected this problem and also…
Visual Access and Attention in Two‐Year‐Olds' Event Reasoning and Object Search
Several recent studies have revealed substantial limitations in 2‐year‐olds' ability to search accurately for objects that have undergone unseen movement, even along highly constrained paths. In many of these studies, children observed a ball as it rolled down a track and behind an occluding panel that contained 4 doors. The track had a barrier that was partly visible and could be placed in locations corresponding to the doors. When the ball came…
Two-year-olds' search strategies and visual tracking in a hidden displacement task
Children younger than 3 years have difficulty with search tasks that involve hidden displacement. Partial visual information was provided about a ball's path as it moved toward a hiding place. Children (2.0 and 2.5 years old) saw a ball rolling down a ramp placed behind a transparent screen with 4 opaque doors. A wall, placed on the ramp and directly behind 1 of the doors, protruded above the screen and stopped the ball. Children were asked to fi…
Using Object Knowledge in Visual Tracking and Reaching
Nine‐month‐old infants were presented with an engaging and challenging task of visually tracking and reaching for a rolling ball that disappeared and reappeared from behind an occluder. On some trials, the infant observed the experimenter place a barrier on the ball's track; the barrier remained partially visible above the occluder throughout the remainder of the trial. When the task involved only predictive tracking, infants' anticipatory gaze s…
Where's the ball? Two- and three-year-olds reason about unseen events
Children 2, 2 1/2, and 3 years of age engaged in a search task in which they opened 1 of 4 doors in an occluder to retrieve a ball that had been rolled behind the occluder. The correct door was determined by a partially visible wall placed behind the occluder that stopped the motion of the unseen ball. Only the oldest group of children was able to reliably choose the correct door. All children were able to retrieve a toy that had been hidden in t…
Infants' predictive reaching for moving objects in the dark
Infants were presented with a moving object under 2 lighting conditions to investigate the role of vision in early reaching. The motion of the target object also allowed for an analysis of the infants' ability to use a predictive style of reaching. Infants were tested twice, at 5 and 7.5 months ofage, with a moving object in the light and the same object painted with luminescent paint in the dark. Infants successfully contacted the glowing object…
Learning to reach
This article presents a mathematical model of the development of reaching that assumes that the major problem facing infants is their lack of lower level motor control and that infants learn to adjust their reaching strategies as a consequence of their previous experience and to match their current level of control. The model hypothesizes that infant reaches are a series of submovements, with the goal being to get the hand to the target in the fa…
Where's the ball? Two- and three-year-olds reason about unseen events
Children 2, 2 1/2, and 3 years of age engaged in a search task in which they opened 1 of 4 doors in an occluder to retrieve a ball that had been rolled behind the occluder. The correct door was determined by a partially visible wall placed behind the occluder that stopped the motion of the unseen ball. Only the oldest group of children was able to reliably choose the correct door. All children were able to retrieve a toy that had been hidden in t…
What do two-year-olds understand about hidden-object events
Preferential-looking studies suggest that by 2 months of age, infants may have knowledge about some object properties, such as solidity. Manual search studies of toddlers examining these same concepts, however, have failed to provide evidence for the same understanding. Investigators have recently attempted to reconcile this disparity but failed to control for the visual novelty of test outcomes. The current design corrected this problem and also…
Infants' predictive reaching for moving objects in the dark
Infants were presented with a moving object under 2 lighting conditions to investigate the role of vision in early reaching. The motion of the target object also allowed for an analysis of the infants' ability to use a predictive style of reaching. Infants were tested twice, at 5 and 7.5 months ofage, with a moving object in the light and the same object painted with luminescent paint in the dark. Infants successfully contacted the glowing object…
Two-year-olds' search strategies and visual tracking in a hidden displacement task
Children younger than 3 years have difficulty with search tasks that involve hidden displacement. Partial visual information was provided about a ball's path as it moved toward a hiding place. Children (2.0 and 2.5 years old) saw a ball rolling down a ramp placed behind a transparent screen with 4 opaque doors. A wall, placed on the ramp and directly behind 1 of the doors, protruded above the screen and stopped the ball. Children were asked to fi…
Learning to reach
This article presents a mathematical model of the development of reaching that assumes that the major problem facing infants is their lack of lower level motor control and that infants learn to adjust their reaching strategies as a consequence of their previous experience and to match their current level of control. The model hypothesizes that infant reaches are a series of submovements, with the goal being to get the hand to the target in the fa…
Infants' predictive reaching for moving objects in the dark
Infants were presented with a moving object under 2 lighting conditions to investigate the role of vision in early reaching. The motion of the target object also allowed for an analysis of the infants' ability to use a predictive style of reaching. Infants were tested twice, at 5 and 7.5 months ofage, with a moving object in the light and the same object painted with luminescent paint in the dark. Infants successfully contacted the glowing object…
Learning to reach
This article presents a mathematical model of the development of reaching that assumes that the major problem facing infants is their lack of lower level motor control and that infants learn to adjust their reaching strategies as a consequence of their previous experience and to match their current level of control. The model hypothesizes that infant reaches are a series of submovements, with the goal being to get the hand to the target in the fa…
Where's the ball? Two- and three-year-olds reason about unseen events
Children 2, 2 1/2, and 3 years of age engaged in a search task in which they opened 1 of 4 doors in an occluder to retrieve a ball that had been rolled behind the occluder. The correct door was determined by a partially visible wall placed behind the occluder that stopped the motion of the unseen ball. Only the oldest group of children was able to reliably choose the correct door. All children were able to retrieve a toy that had been hidden in t…
Using Object Knowledge in Visual Tracking and Reaching
Nine‐month‐old infants were presented with an engaging and challenging task of visually tracking and reaching for a rolling ball that disappeared and reappeared from behind an occluder. On some trials, the infant observed the experimenter place a barrier on the ball's track; the barrier remained partially visible above the occluder throughout the remainder of the trial. When the task involved only predictive tracking, infants' anticipatory gaze s…
Two-year-olds' search strategies and visual tracking in a hidden displacement task
Children younger than 3 years have difficulty with search tasks that involve hidden displacement. Partial visual information was provided about a ball's path as it moved toward a hiding place. Children (2.0 and 2.5 years old) saw a ball rolling down a ramp placed behind a transparent screen with 4 opaque doors. A wall, placed on the ramp and directly behind 1 of the doors, protruded above the screen and stopped the ball. Children were asked to fi…
Visual Access and Attention in Two‐Year‐Olds' Event Reasoning and Object Search
Several recent studies have revealed substantial limitations in 2‐year‐olds' ability to search accurately for objects that have undergone unseen movement, even along highly constrained paths. In many of these studies, children observed a ball as it rolled down a track and behind an occluding panel that contained 4 doors. The track had a barrier that was partly visible and could be placed in locations corresponding to the doors. When the ball came…
What do two-year-olds understand about hidden-object events
Preferential-looking studies suggest that by 2 months of age, infants may have knowledge about some object properties, such as solidity. Manual search studies of toddlers examining these same concepts, however, have failed to provide evidence for the same understanding. Investigators have recently attempted to reconcile this disparity but failed to control for the visual novelty of test outcomes. The current design corrected this problem and also…
Child and Animal Learning Development (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Spatial Cognition and Navigation (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (3 works) · Doors (3 works)