Eleven-month-old infants infer differences in the hardness of object surfaces from observation of penetration events.
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SUBMITTER: Imura T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4522514 | biostudies-literature | 2015
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Eleven-month-old infants infer differences in the hardness of object surfaces from observation of penetration events.
Imura Tomoko T Masuda Tomohiro T Shirai Nobu N Wada Yuji Y
Frontiers in psychology 20150803
Previous studies have shown different developmental trajectories for object recognition of solid and non-solid objects. However, there is no evidence as to whether infants have expectations regarding certain attributes of objects, such as surface hardness, in the absence of tactile information. In the present study, we examined infants' perception of the hardness of object surfaces from visually presented penetration events using the familiarization-novelty preference procedure. Experiment 1 sho ...[more]
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