| Evidence for mental subdivision of space by infants: 3- to 4-month-olds spontaneously bisect a small-scale area into left and right categories. | |
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PMID: 22460745 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Young infants have been shown to represent the left versus right spatial category relations of a target object and a vertical referent bar. In the present study, we examined whether infants would represent left versus right when the vertical bar was removed from the stimulus display. In Experiment 1, 3- to 4-month-olds who had been familiarized with stimuli depicting a diamond appearing in different locations to the left or right of the vertical midline displayed a mean novel category preference for a stimulus depicting the diamond on the opposite side of the midline. In Experiment 2, another group of 3- to 4-month-olds discriminated the within-category position changes of the diamond as it appeared to the left or right of the vertical midline. The results indicate that young infants can mentally bisect small-scale space into left versus right categories. |
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Authors:
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Paul C Quinn |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-3-30 |
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Title: Psychonomic bulletin & review Volume: - ISSN: 1531-5320 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Mar |
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Created Date: 2012-3-30 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9502924 Medline TA: Psychon Bull Rev Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA, pquinn@udel.edu. |
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