title: Executive functioning demands of the object retrieval task for 8- month-old infants.
abstract: At 8 to 11 months of age, infants are more successful in negotiating opaque relative to transparent barriers. However, 7-month-old infants have more difficulty with opaque barriers relative to semitransparent barriers. Here, 8-month-old infants spent more time in ineffective direct reaches with more the transparent barriers (Experiments 1 & 2) and were faster with the fully opaque barrier (Experiment 2). This demonstration of the graded effects of transparency confirms the working memory and/or response inhibition demands of the object retrieval task.
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37 203, USA. julia.noland@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Julia S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Noland
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis