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Fausto-Sterling, Anne; Crews, David; Sung, Jihyun; García-Coll, Cynthia; Seifer, Ronald – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Using the concepts of sensory and affective experience, this work relates the concepts of socialization and cognitive development to the embodiment of gender in the human infant. Evidence obtained from biweekly observations from 30 children and their mothers observed from age 3 months to age 12 months revealed measurable sex-related differences in…
Descriptors: Socialization, Cognitive Development, Gender Differences, Infants
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Pagel, Birthe; Heed, Tobias; Roder, Brigitte – Developmental Science, 2009
Temporal order judgements (TOJ) for two tactile stimuli, one presented to the left and one to the right hand, are less precise when the hands are crossed over the midline than when the hands are uncrossed. This "crossed hand" effect has been considered as evidence for a remapping of tactile input into an external reference frame. Since late, but…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Child Development, Blindness, Cognitive Processes
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Weisberg, Paul – Child Development, 1975
Studied developmental differences in 3- to 7-year-old children's preferences for tickling or cuddling stimulation. (JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Stimuli, Tactual Perception
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Petronio, Karen; Dively, Valerie – Sign Language Studies, 2006
In American Sign Language (ASL), a receiver watches the signer and receives language visually. In contrast, when using tactile ASL, a variety of ASL, the deaf-blind receiver receives language by placing a hand on top of the signer's hand. In the study described in this article we compared the functions and frequency of the signs YES and #NO in…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Tactual Perception, Stimuli
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Bourgeois, Kristine S.; Khawar, Alexa W.; Neal, S. Ashley; Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Infancy, 2005
Although a considerable amount is known about the development of object manipulation during the 1st year, less is known about how infants manually explore surfaces and relate objects to surfaces. To address these issues, 60 infants (20 each at 6, 8, and 10 months of age) were presented hard and soft objects on tabletop surfaces, which varied in…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, Infants, Tactual Perception, Stimuli