Priming 4.5-month-old infants to use height information by enhancing retrieval
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9792188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Su-hua Wang (0000-0003-3494-5486, University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-38 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0021060 |
| PMID | 21058828 |
| OpenAlex | W2024429799 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 12 |
How do infants select and use information that is relevant to the task at hand? Infants treat events that involve different spatial relations as distinct, and their selection and use of object information depends on the type of event they encounter. For example, 4.5-month-olds consider information about object height in occlusion events, but infants typically fail to do so in containment events until they reach the age of 7.5 months. However, after seeing a prime involving occlusion, 4.5-month-olds became sensitive to height information in a containment event (Experiment 1). The enhancement lasted over a brief delay (Experiment 2) and persisted even longer when infants were shown an additional occlusion prime but not an object prime (Experiment 3). Together, these findings reveal remarkable flexibility in visual representations of young infants and show that their use of information can be facilitated not by strengthening object representations per se but by strengthening their tendency to retrieve available information in the representations
Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Event (particle physics · Flexibility (engineering · Object (grammar · Prime (order theory · Priming (agriculture · Statistics · Task (project management · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · Computer Science · Mathematics · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation
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| Citations per year | 0.58 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |