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Parents Influence the Visual Learning Environment through Children's Manual Actions
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McQuillan, Maureen E.; Smith, Linda B.; Yu, Chen; Bates, John E. – Child Development, 2020
The present research studied children in the second year of life (N = 29, M[subscript age] = 21.14 months, SD = 2.64 months) using experimental manipulations within and between subjects to show that responsive parental influence helps children have more frequent sustained object holds with fewer switches between objects compared to when parents…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Visual Learning, Toddlers, Object Manipulation
Vision for Action in Toddlers: The Posting Task
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Street, Sandra Y.; James, Karin H.; Jones, Susan S.; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 2011
Three experiments examine 18- to 24-month-old (N = 78) toddlers' ability to spatially orient objects by their major axes for insertion into a slot. This is a simplified version of the posting task that is commonly used to measure dorsal stream functioning. The experiments identify marked developmental changes in children's ability to preorient…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Spatial Ability, Child Development, Age Differences
Tests of a Dynamic Systems Account of the A-not-B Error: The Influence of Prior Experience on the Spatial Memory Abilities of Two-Year-Olds.
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Spencer, John P.; Smith, Linda B.; Thelen, Esther – Child Development, 2001
Five experiments tested hypothesis that the A-not-B error results from general processes that make goal-directed actions to remembered locations. Findings showed that 2-year-olds' performance on the A trial was accurate. When the object was hidden at Location B, searches after 10-second delay were biased in the direction of Location A. This bias…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Error Patterns, Memory, Prior Learning
Categorization and Its Developmental Relation to Early Language.
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Gershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Thal, Donna J.; Smith, Linda B.; Namy, Laura L. – Child Development, 1997
Three studies examined the developmental relationship between early linguistic and cognitive achievements. Findings showed that children's ability to classify objects in a spatial or temporal order was independent of advances in productive vocabulary growth, suggesting that developments in categorization and naming depend on abilities in addition…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classification, Individual Development
Memory and Attention Make Smart Word Learning: An Alternative Account of Akhtar, Carpenter, and Tomasello.
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Samuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Child Development, 1998
Used a modification of Akhtar, Carpenter, and Tomasello's (1996) task involving interpretation of novel nouns to test whether 18- to 28-month-olds' smart word learning derived from general attention and memory processes rather than knowledge about the communicative intents of others. Findings similar to those of Akhtar and colleagues suggest that…
Descriptors: Attention, Context Effect, Learning Processes, Memory