TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamic mental representation in infancy
AU - Hespos, Susan J.
AU - Rochat, Philippe
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge Kate McCroskey, Mark Plotkin, Sarah Schwartz, and Janet Yoon for help in the data collection and analysis. We express our appreciation to the parents and infants who participated in the study, to M.J. Wraga for her comments on earlier drafts, and to Mark Plotkin and Farrell Rieger for help in building the apparatus for Experiment 2. The research was supported in part by a CIBA predoctoral grant awarded to Susan Hespos and grant No. MH50385-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health and grant No. SBR950773 from the National Science Foundation both awarded to Philippe Rochat.
PY - 1997/8
Y1 - 1997/8
N2 - Recent research indicates that 4- to 8-month-old infants can track and anticipate the final orientation of an object following different invisible spatial transformations (Rochat, P., Hespos, S.J. (1996). Cognitive Development, 11, 3-17). Six experiments were designed to specify further the nature and development of early expectation for a set of dynamic events. A violation of expectation method was used to assess infants' reactions to probable and improbable outcomes of an objects' orientation following an invisible transformation. The availability of orientation cues, the path of motion, and the amount of invisible spatial transformation was systematically varied. The studies indicate that infants as young as 4 months of age detect orientation-specific cues for objects undergoing invisible spatial transformations. Developmental differences in this ability between 4 and 6 months of age lend insight to the nature and limitations of this early representational ability. These findings provide evidence for dynamic mental representation in infancy.
AB - Recent research indicates that 4- to 8-month-old infants can track and anticipate the final orientation of an object following different invisible spatial transformations (Rochat, P., Hespos, S.J. (1996). Cognitive Development, 11, 3-17). Six experiments were designed to specify further the nature and development of early expectation for a set of dynamic events. A violation of expectation method was used to assess infants' reactions to probable and improbable outcomes of an objects' orientation following an invisible transformation. The availability of orientation cues, the path of motion, and the amount of invisible spatial transformation was systematically varied. The studies indicate that infants as young as 4 months of age detect orientation-specific cues for objects undergoing invisible spatial transformations. Developmental differences in this ability between 4 and 6 months of age lend insight to the nature and limitations of this early representational ability. These findings provide evidence for dynamic mental representation in infancy.
KW - Infancy
KW - Mental representation
KW - Spatial transformation
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U2 - 10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00029-2
DO - 10.1016/S0010-0277(97)00029-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 9385869
AN - SCOPUS:0031196219
VL - 64
SP - 153
EP - 188
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
SN - 0010-0277
IS - 2
ER -