Two independent research communities have produced large bodies of data concerning
object representations: the community concerned with the infant's object concept and the …

For over 35 years, the violation-of-expectation paradigm has been used to study the
development of expectations in the first 3 years of life. A wide range of expectations has …

This article provides a synthesis and overview of a theory of cognitive development, rational
constructivism. The basic tenets of this view are as follows:(a) Initial state: Human infants …

Four experiments investigated whether 9-month-old infants could use the presence of labels
to help them establish a representation of two distinct objects in a complex object …

Recent research indicates that when an event-monitoring paradigm is used, infants as
young as 4.5 months of age demonstrate the ability to use featural information to individuate …

The present research examined 2.5-month-old infants' reasoning about occlusion events.
Three experiments investigated infants' ability to predict whether an object should remain …

Research over the past 20 years has revealed that even very young infants possess
expectations about physical events, and that these expectations undergo significant …

Four experiments investigated whether 12-month-old infants use perceptual property
information in a complex object individuation task, using the violation-of-expectancy looking …

Eight experiments were conducted to examine 3-and 3.5-month-old infants' responses to
occlusion events. The results revealed two developments, one in infants' knowledge of when …

The present research examined whether 5-to 6.5-month-old infants would hold different
expectations about various physical events involving a box after receiving evidence that it …