Shaking things up: young infants' use of sound information for object individuation.
A search task was used to assess 5- to 7-month-olds' ability to use property-rich sounds to individuate objects. Results suggest that infants interpret an occlusion event involving two distinct rattle sounds as involving two objects but are unsure of how to interpret two identical rattle sounds.
Psychology, Texas A&M University, United States. gooddaytracy@gmail.com
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Teresa
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Wilcox
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D002657:Child Development; D003210:Concept Formation / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013016:Sound