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Psychology · Developmental Psychology

Infant Cognition

A topic within Developmental Psychology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Infant Cognition

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Paper1985

Object Permanence in Five-Month-Old Infants

Renée Baillargeon, Elizabeth S. Spelke & Stanley Wasserman

Using a violation-of-expectation looking-time paradigm, finds five-month-olds look longer at a physically impossible event than a possible one, evidence that infants represent hidden objects as continuing to exist far earlier than Piaget's stage theory predicted.

Psychology · Developmental Psychology
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Paper1990

Principles of Object Perception

Elizabeth S. Spelke

Argues infants perceive objects using a small set of innate physical principles - cohesion, boundedness, rigidity - rather than gradually learning object perception from experience the way empiricist accounts assume.

Psychology · Developmental Psychology
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