Preserved visual representations despite change blindness in infants.
Combining theoretical hypotheses of infant cognition and adult perception, we present evidence that infants can maintain visual representations despite their failure to detect a change. Infants under 12 months typically fail to notice a change to an object's height in a covering event. The present experiments demonstrated that 11-month-old infants can nevertheless maintain a viable representation of both the pre- and post-change heights despite their 'change blindness'. These results suggest that infants, like adults, can simultaneously maintain multiple representations, even if they do not optimally use them.
Wang
Su-hua
SH
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA. suhua@ucsc.edu
Mitroff
Stephen R
SR
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001766:Blindness / Q000503:physiopathology; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
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