Lecturer: Stephen A. Butterfill
There is evidence that abilities to represent unperceived objects as persisting appear early in infancy, from four months of age or earlier. It appears that a single set of principles might explain both abilities to represent objects as persisting and abilities to segment objects.
Aguiar, A., & Baillargeon, R. (2002). Developments in young infants’ reasoning about occluded objects.
Cognitive Psychology,
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Aslin, R. N. (2007). What’s in a look?
Developmental Science,
10(1), 48–53.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00563.x Baillargeon, R. (1987). Object permanence in 3.5-and 4.5-month-old infants.
Developmental Psychology,
23(5), 655–664.
Baillargeon, R. (2002). The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy: A summary in eight lessons. In U. Goswami (Ed.),
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Chiandetti, C., & Vallortigara, G. (2011). Intuitive physical reasoning about occluded objects by inexperienced chicks.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
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https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2381 Deppe, A. M., Wright, P. C., & Szelistowski, W. A. (2009). Object permanence in lemurs.
Animal Cognition,
12(2), 381–388.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-008-0197-5 Fiset, S., & Plourde, V. (2013). Object permanence in domestic dogs (canis lupus familiaris) and gray wolves (canis lupus).
Journal of Comparative Psychology,
127(2), 115–127.
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030595 Hoffmann, A., Rüttler, V., & Nieder, A. (2011). Ontogeny of object permanence and object tracking in the carrion crow, corvus corone.
Animal Behaviour,
82(2), 359–367.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.012 Jaakkola, K., Guarino, E., Rodriguez, M., Erb, L., & Trone, M. (2010). What do dolphins (tursiops truncatus) understand about hidden objects?
Animal Cognition,
13(1), 103–120.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-009-0250-z Kaufman, J., Csibra, G., & Johnson, M. H. (2005). Oscillatory activity in the infant brain reflects object maintenance.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
102(42), 15271–15274.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507626102 Kundey, S. M. A., Reyes, A. D. L., Taglang, C., Baruch, A., & German, R. (2010). Domesticated dogs’ (canis familiaris) use of the solidity principle.
Animal Cognition,
13(3), 497–505.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-009-0300-6 Rosander, K., & Hofsten, C. von. (2004). Infants’ emerging ability to represent occluded object motion.
Cognition,
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00166-5 Santos, L. R., Seelig, D., & Hauser, M. D. (2006). Cotton-top tamarins’ (saguinus oedipus) expectations about occluded objects: A dissociation between looking and reaching tasks.
Infancy,
9(2), 147–171.
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327078in0902_4 Schöner, G., & Thelen, E. (2006). Using dynamic field theory to rethink infant habituation.
Psychological Review,
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https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.113.2.273 Sirois, S., & Jackson, I. R. (2012). Pupil dilation and object permanence in infants.
Infancy,
17(1), 61–78.
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Spelke, E. S., Kestenbaum, R., Simons, D. J., & Wein, D. (1995). Spatiotemporal continuity, smoothness of motion and object identity in infancy.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology,
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Animal Learning & Behavior,
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https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212035 Wang, S., Baillargeon, R., & Brueckner, L. (2004). Young infants’ reasoning about hidden objects: Evidence from violation-of-expectation tasks with test trials only.
Cognition,
93(3), 167–198.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2003.09.012 Wermeskerken, M. van, Kamp, J. van der, Velde, A. F. te, Valero-Garcia, A. V., Hoozemans, M. J. M., & Savelsbergh, G. J. P. (2011). Anticipatory reaching of seven- to eleven-month-old infants in occlusion situations.
Infant Behavior and Development,
34(1), 45–54.
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