Comparing infants’ use of featural and spatiotemporal information in an object individuation task using a new event‐monitoring design

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00640.x
• Publication Date: 2007-10-27T21:46:05Z
• Authors: Peter Krøjgaard
• Keywords: Individuation

Abstract Discussions have recently taken place on whether spatiotemporal information is more important than featural when infants attempt to individuate objects. Hitherto, and only been compared directly by using cognitively demanding ‘event‐mapping designs’ (e.g. Xu & Carey, 1996 ), whereas the simpler event‐monitoring designs ‘wide‐screen/narrow‐screen’ Wilcox colleagues) not employed for such a comparison. The present research offers new design, rotating screen that allows direct Three experiments in which 9.5‐, 8.0‐, 6.5‐month‐old objects are reported. results showed 9.5‐month‐old were able as well information, of younger age groups successfully individuated provided with but information.