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Jones, Emily J. H.; Pascalis, Olivier; Eacott, Madeline J.; Herbert, Jane S. – Developmental Science, 2011
In two experiments, we investigated the development of representational flexibility in visual recognition memory during infancy using the Visual Paired Comparison (VPC) task. In Experiment 1, 6- and 9-month-old infants exhibited recognition when familiarization and test occurred in the same room, but showed no evidence of recognition when…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Stimuli, Recognition (Psychology), Familiarity
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Rose, Susan A.; Feldman, Judith F.; Jankowski, Jeffery J.; Van Rossem, Ronan – Developmental Science, 2011
There is considerable dispute about the nature of infant memory. Using SEM models, we examined whether popular characterizations of the structure of adult memory, including the two-process theory of recognition, are applicable in the infant and toddler years. The participants were a cohort of preterms and full-terms assessed longitudinally--at 1,…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Premature Infants, Memory
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Jaswal, Vikram K.; Hansen, Mikkel B. – Developmental Science, 2006
Children tend to infer that when a speaker uses a new label, the label refers to an unlabeled object rather than one they already know the label for. Does this inference reflect a default assumption that words are mutually exclusive? Or does it instead reflect the result of a pragmatic reasoning process about what the speaker intended? In two…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pragmatics, Semantics, Cues