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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"infant cognition"”.
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Impacts of prenatal phthalate and bisphenol exposure on infant cognition and early language development
… the impacts of these prenatal exposures on cognition very early in life. Additionally, replacement chemicals within the bisphenol and phthalate families have recently been used increasingly in consumer products and even less is known about their impacts on neurodevelopment. The goal of this …
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Impact of prenatal maternal stress on infant cognition and modifications of effects by exposure to phthalates
… of these stressors on more specific aspects of cognition and obtain results earlier in life that has been done in most previous studies, this dissertation used innovative measures adapted from developmental psychology to assess basic building blocks of cognition in infancy. These include …
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Evaluation Toolkit for Adaptable Automatic Gaze Estimation
… have long been interested in understanding how infants learn to perceive and understand the world [11, 9, 7]. One technique for investigating infant cognition involves presenting stimuli and observing the direction and duration of their gaze [5]. Experiments of this type currently require human …
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Early neural signatures of cognitive development
Studying infant cognition is an exciting yet challenging task due to the complexities of assessment in this developing population. Non-verbal behaviors, particularly looking behaviors, have served as important tools in enriching our understanding of infants’ minds. However, interpreting looking …
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Who's got guts? Young infants expect animals to have insides
… Here we demonstrate that 8- month-old infants already expect novel objects they identify as animals to have insides. Infants detected a violation when an object that was self-propelled and agentive (but not an object that lacked one or both of these properties) was revealed to be …
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Infants' reasoning about animals
… I focus on animals’ insides and ask whether infants expect that the removal of an animal’s insides should lead to the loss of function, and more specifically the loss of self-propulsion (Experiment 1). Second, I am interested in whether infants know about behaviors that all animals share. I …
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Early reasoning about moral obligations and rights
Recent studies suggest that infants have the ability to reason about how individuals should act toward others, and that this early moral reasoning is guided by at least four moral principles: fairness, harm avoidance, ingroup support and authority. For example, infants expect an individual to …
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Developmental underpinnings of expectations of equity and attitudes toward resource disparities
… equity, focusing on two major questions: 1) do infants have an equity-based sense of fairness in allocation-related contexts in which they can evaluate equal outcomes as unfair, and 2) do toddlers hold differential attitudes toward individuals with differing amounts of resources? Experiments 1 …