Event Details
Principles of Object Persistence in Infancy
- Event Date: February 20, 2007
- Event Start Time: 1:00 PM
- Event End Time: 2:00 PM
- Event Location: Yale University, Department of Psychology
- Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia
- Event Semester: Spring 2007
- Event Contact: Erik Cheries
- Event Extra info: <a href="http://www.yale.edu/infantlab/cheries">Erik Cheries</a>
One of the most studied questions across the cognitive sciences is how the mind keeps track of objects as the same persisting individuals over time and motion. My talk will summarize several studies with human infants that explore the ontogenetic foundations of this critical ability. In particular, I will focus on recent studies that highlight several signature constraints on infants� object tracking abilities that may also reflect the underlying principles supporting some of our most fundamental cognitive abilities� maintaining representations of objects through occlusion, enumeration, and tracking the identity of mental agents over time.