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Infants reach to location A without practice or training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Laraine McDonough
Laraine McDonough
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College and The City of New York Graduate Center, Brooklyn, NY 11210 Larainem@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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Abstract

Thelen and her colleagues' model overemphasizes the role of action in cognitive development. Recent research has shown that infants do not have to be trained to reach for a hidden object. By 7.5 months of age, infants can recall the location of a hidden object with no practice trials. Thelen at al.'s goal to design a parsimonious account of A-not-B behaviors was successful, but at the expense of focusing primarily on implicit and ignoring explicit memory.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 54
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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