The relation between infants' activity with objects and attention to object appearance.
The authors examined the relation between infants' motor skills and attention to objects features in events in which a hand acted on an object (e.g., squeezed it) that then produced a sound (e.g., squeaking). In this study, 6- to 7-month-old infants (N = 41) were habituated to a single event and then tested with changes in appearance and action. Infants robustly responded to changes in action, but as a group did not respond to changes in appearance. Moreover, more skilled activity with objects during naturalistic play was associated with longer looking in response to a change in appearance, but not to a change in action. Implications for the relation between perception and action in infancy are discussed. (
Perone
Sammy
S
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA.
Madole
Kelly L
KL
Ross-Sheehy
Shannon
S
Carey
Maeve
M
Oakes
Lisa M
LM
D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009048:Motor Skills; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011597:Psychomotor Performance
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