Visual Constancies Amidst Changes in Handled Objects for 5- to 24-Month-Old Infants

Manual skills slowly develop throughout infancy and have been shown to create clear views of objects that provide better support for visually sustained attention, recognition, memory, and learning. These clear views may coincide with the development of manual skills, or that social scaffolding suppo...

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Published in:Child development 2019-03, Vol.90 (2), p.452-461
Main Authors: Burling, Joseph M., Yoshida, Hanako
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attention
Attention Control
Child Development
Comprehension
EMPIRICAL REPORTS
Exploration
Eye Movements
Female
Fixation, Ocular
Humans
Imitative Behavior
Infancy
Infant
Infants
Language Development
Learning
Male
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Object Manipulation
Parent Child Relationship
Play and Playthings
Psychology, Child
Psychomotor Performance
Psychomotor Skills
Recognition (Psychology)
Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Skill Development
Social skills
Sustained attention
Toddlers
Verbal Learning
Visual Perception
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Summary:Manual skills slowly develop throughout infancy and have been shown to create clear views of objects that provide better support for visually sustained attention, recognition, memory, and learning. These clear views may coincide with the development of manual skills, or that social scaffolding supports clear viewing experiences like those generated by toddlers during active object exploration. This study used a head-mounted eye tracker to record 5- to 24-month-olds' object views during repeated mother-infant play sessions (Ns = 18). Results show an early beginning of scaffolding in which parents generate views similar to those of older infants and toddlers, resulting in increased fixations to objects. The finding implicates parents as early scaffolders of object attention and learning.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/cdev.13201