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Peer reviewedBelmont, Lillian; And Others – Science, 1978
This study of young men from two-child families shows that birth-order effect and level of ability were not influenced by length of interval between firstborn and secondborn. (MP)
Descriptors: Birth Order, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Family Structure
Peer reviewedDodwell, P. C.; And Others – Science, 1976
Reports the results of studies of perception of very young infants. Sixty infants 6 to 23 days old were presented objects; looking-at and reaching-for the objects were measured. Results indicated active visual exploration of objects did occur; however, little motor activity was directed toward the objects. (SL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Research, Infant Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedBazell, Robert J. – Science, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Drug Therapy, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedCarey, Susan; Diamond, Rhea – Science, 1977
Research shows that children of about 10 years can remember photographs of faces upside down almost as well as those shown upright and are easily fooled by simple disguises. This ability to encode orientation-specific configurations of a face may reflect maturational changes in the right cerebral hemisphere. (MLH)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Child Development, Learning, Neurological Organization
Peer reviewedKuhl, Patricia K.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Science, 1982
Indicates that 18- to 20-month-old infants can detect the correspondence between auditorially and visually perceived speech; that is, they manifest some of the components related to lip-reading phenomena in adults. This demonstration of the bimodal perception of speech in infancy has important implications for social, cognitive, and linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Infants
