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Title: Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account
Authors: Baillargeon, Renée
Stavans, Maayan
Wu, Di
Gertner, Yael
Setoh, Peipei
Kittredge, Audrey K.
Bernard, Amélie
Keywords: DRNTU::Humanities::Language
Issue Date: 2012
Source: Baillargeon, R., Stavans, M., Wu, D., Gertner, Y., Setoh, P., Kittredge, A. K. et al. (2012). Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account. Language learning and development, 8(1), 4-46.
Series/Report no.: Language learning and development
Abstract: Much of the research on object individuation in infancy has used a task in which two different objects emerge in alternation from behind a large screen, which is then removed to reveal either one or two objects. In their seminal work, Xu and Carey (1996) found that it is typically not until the end of the first year that infants detect a violation when a single object is revealed. Since then, a large number of investigations have modified the standard task in various ways and found that young infants succeed with some but not with other modifications, yielding a complex and unwieldy picture. In this article, we argue that this confusing picture can be better understood by bringing to bear insights from a related subfield of infancy research, physical reasoning. By considering how infants reason about object information within and across physical events, we can make sense of apparently inconsistent findings from different object-individuation tasks. In turn, object-individuation findings deepen our understanding of how physical reasoning develops in infancy. Integrating the insights from physical-reasoning and object-individuation investigations thus enriches both subfields and brings about a clearer account of how infants represent objects and events.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107285
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25474
DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2012.630610
Schools: School of Humanities and Social Sciences 
Rights: © 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Language Learning and Development, Taylor & Francis. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2012.630610].
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