Journal article
It clicks when it is rolled and it squeaks when it is squeezed: what 10-month-old infants learn about object function
Child development, Vol.77(6), pp.1608-1622
11/2006
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/112936
PMID: 17107449
Abstract
Function has been considered important in numerous literatures in the study of cognitive development, yet little is known about what and how infants learn about function. Five experiments examined what 10-month-old infants (N=80) learn about functions that involve a sound produced when an object is acted on. Infants habituated to a single object (Experiment 1) or multiple objects that performed the same function (Experiment 2) learned both the actions and the sounds. Infants did not appear to learn relations between actions and sounds (Experiment 3) or appearances and sounds (Experiment 4), although they did learn the relations between appearances and actions (Experiment 5). These results are discussed in terms of how infants learn about object function.
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- Title
- It clicks when it is rolled and it squeaks when it is squeezed: what 10-month-old infants learn about object function
- Creators
- Sammy Perone - University of Iowa, USALisa M Oakes
- Publication Details
- Child development, Vol.77(6), pp.1608-1622
- Academic Unit
- Human Development, Department of
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- R01 HD049840 / NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD049143 / NICHD NIH HHS HD49143 / NICHD NIH HHS HD49840 / NICHD NIH HHS
- Identifiers
- 99900547544001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article