Learning about Occlusion: Initial Assumptions and Rapid Adjustments

Autor/inn/en	Kochukhova, Olga; Gredeback, Gustaf
Titel	Learning about Occlusion: Initial Assumptions and Rapid Adjustments
Quelle	In: Cognition, 105 (2007) 1, S.26-46 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2006.08.005
Schlagwörter	Long Term Memory; Infants; Visual Stimuli; Vision; Prediction; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Langzeitgedächtnis; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Vorhersage; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	We examined 6-month-olds' abilities to represent occluded objects, using a corneal-reflection eye-tracking technique. Experiment 1 compared infants' ability to extrapolate the current pre-occlusion trajectory with their ability to base predictions on recent experiences of novel object motions. In the first condition infants performed at asymptote ([roughly] 2/3 accurate predictions) from the first occlusion passage. In the second condition all infants initially failed to make accurate prediction. Performance, however, reached asymptote after two occlusion passages. This is the first study that demonstrates such rapid learning effects during an occlusion task. Experiment 2 replicates these effects and demonstrates a robust memory effect extending 24 h. In occlusion tasks such long-term memory effects have previously only been observed in 14-month-olds (Moore & Meltzoff, 2004). (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10