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Hespos, Susan J.; Dora, Begum; Rips, Lance J.; Christie, Stella – Child Development, 2012
Infants can track small groups of solid objects, and infants can respond when these quantities change. But earlier work is equivocal about whether infants can track continuous substances, such as piles of sand. Experiment 1 ("N" = 88) used a habituation paradigm to show infants can register changes in the size of piles of sand that they…
Descriptors: Evidence, Infants, Psychology, Eye Movements
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Vigue, Charles L. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1986
Describes several laboratory experiments that are adaptations of clinical tests for certain genetic diseases in babies. Information and procedures are provided for tests for phenylketonuria (PKU), galactosemia, tyrosinemia, cystinuria, and mucopolysaccharidosis. Discusses the effects of each disease on the infants' development. (TW)
Descriptors: Biology, Clinical Diagnosis, College Science, Diseases