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Direct linkStarmans, Christina; Bloom, Paul – Cognition, 2012
Where are we? In three experiments, we explore preschoolers' and adults' intuitions about the location of the self using a novel method that asks when an object is closet to a person. Children and adults judge objects near a person's eyes to be closer to her than objects near other parts of her body. This holds even when considering an alien…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, Experiments, Spatial Ability
Birch, Susan A. J.; Vauthier, Sophie A.; Bloom, Paul – Cognition, 2008
A wealth of human knowledge is acquired by attending to information provided by other people--but some people are more credible sources than others. In two experiments, we explored whether young children spontaneously keep track of an individual's history of being accurate or inaccurate and use this information to facilitate subsequent learning.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Learning Strategies, Learning, Language Acquisition
