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Fontenelle, Sarah A.; Kahrs, Bjorn Alexander; Neal, S. Ashley; Newton, A. Taylor; Lockman, Jeffrey J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2007
Everyday environments, even small regions within reach, vary dramatically in terms of material composition. Adapting one's manual behavior to such transitions can be considered to be an important element of skilled action. To investigate the origins of this ability, we presented 8-month-olds (n=24) and 10-month-olds (n=24) hard or soft objects on…
Descriptors: Infants, Problem Solving, Perception Tests, Tactual Perception
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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