title: Beyond the search barrier: A new task for assessing object individuation in young infants.
abstract: Object individuation, the capacity to track the identity of objects when perceptual contact is lost and then regained, is fundamental to human cognition. A great deal of research using the violation-of-expectation method has been conducted to investigate the development of object individuation in infancy. At the same time, there is a growing need for converging methods of study. Reported here are data obtained with from a newly developed search task that can be used with infants as young as 5 months of age. The results suggest that this method is a sensitive measure of object individuation in young infants and demonstrate the advantages of using converging methods of study.
authors: University of Alabama, USA.
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: McCurry
authors: Teresa
authors: T
authors: Wilcox
authors: Rebecca
authors: R
authors: Woods
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003116:Color; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007207:Individuation; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*