Changing priority maps in 12- to 18-month-olds: An emerging role for object properties

Sheya, Adam; Smith, Linda B.

doi:10.3758/pbr.17.1.22

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“…Within this map activation can spread along two potential dimensions, by spatial proximity or by featural similarity. In their behavioral experiments, Sheya and Smith (2010) showed that activation in this salience space (as measured by the next toy touched) spreads mostly by spatial proximity for younger infants (12-month-olds) but by feature similarity as well as space for older infants (18-month-olds). Sheya and Smith (2009) conjecture that the emergence of dynamic updating by featural properties rather than just space (a result that also implicates integration of dorsal and ventral visual information) may underlie the emergence of spatial classification.…”

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“…Sheya and Smith (2009, 2010) propose that spatial classification, like the intention to shake a rattle to make noise, is discovered through action. Their analysis begins with a consideration of the dynamics of sequential action, and specifically with the question of how a target‐directed action at time 1 potentiates or influences the selection of the next target at time 2.…”

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Is Cognition Enough to Explain Cognitive Development?

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2010

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Traditional views separate cognitive processes from sensory-motor processes, seeing cognition as amodal, propositional, and compositional, and thus fundamentally different from the processes that underlie perceiving and acting. These were the ideas on which cognitive science was founded 30 years ago. However, advancing discoveries in neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and psychology suggests that cognition may be inseparable from processes of perceiving and acting. From this perspective, this study considers the future of cognitive science with respect to the study of cognitive development.

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Sheya

2010

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“…The exploratory behaviors described above are commonly observable in infants of this age (see Pierroutsakos and DeLoache, 2003 ; Sheya and Smith, 2010a , b ; Soska et al, 2010 ). They reach for, grasp, and manipulate objects in their environment as soon as they develop adequate motor skills.…”

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When the Sound Becomes the Goal. 4E Cognition and Teleomusicality in Early Infancy

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In this paper we explore early musical behaviors through the lenses of the recently emerged “4E” approach to mind, which sees cognitive processes as Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, and Extended. In doing so, we draw from a range of interdisciplinary research, engaging in critical and constructive discussions with both new findings and existing positions. In particular, we refer to observational research by French pedagogue and psychologist François Delalande, who examined infants' first “sound discoveries” and individuated three different musical “conducts” inspired by the “phases of the game” originally postulated by Piaget. Elaborating on such ideas we introduce the notion of “teleomusicality,” which describes the goal-directed behaviors infants adopt to explore and play with sounds. This is distinguished from the developmentally earlier “protomusicality,” which is based on music-like utterances, movements, and emotionally relevant interactions (e.g., with primary caregivers) that do not entail a primary focus on sound itself. The development from protomusicality to teleomusicality is discussed in terms of an “attentive shift” that occurs between 6 and 10 months of age. This forms the basis of a conceptual framework for early musical development that emphasizes the emergence of exploratory, goal-directed (i.e., sound-oriented), and self-organized musical actions in infancy. In line with this, we provide a preliminary taxonomy of teleomusical processes discussing “Original Teleomusical Acts” (OTAs) and “Constituted Teleomusical Acts” (CTAs). We argue that while OTAs can be easily witnessed in infants' exploratory behaviors, CTAs involve the mastery of more specific and complex goal-directed chains of actions central to musical activity.

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“…Equally, Sheya and Smith (2010) highlighted the role of the properties of objects in the production of new ideas, in line with these principles. Frank, van der Kamp and Savelsbergh (2010) explained the activation of perceptions and movement through the competitive interaction between perceptive patterns of the system and the stimuli of the environment.…”

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Escala de desarrollo armónico. Una propuesta integradora para la evaluación del desarrollo infantil.

2015

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Título: Escala de desarrollo armónico. Una propuesta integradora para la evaluación del desarrollo infantil. Resumen: En el ámbito de la evaluación psicológica, cada vez más, los profesionales interesados en el desarrollo son sensibles a la necesidad de instrumentos capaces de integrar en su diseño el carácter sistémico y epigenético de este proceso. La mayoría de las explicaciones propuestas en las últimas décadas convergen en considerar el cambio evolutivo como el resultado de una compleja red de transacciones entre el sujeto y sus contextos de desarrollo a distintos niveles. La Escala de Desarrollo Armónico recoge elementos sensibles al dinamismo del proceso ontogenético: áreas y funciones de desarrollo que experimentan tensiones generadoras de cambios cuantitativos y cualitativos a través de diferentes niveles y etapas. Estas etapas, entendidas como "estados atractores" -concepto clave en la Teoría de Sistemas Dinámicos Autoorganizados-, pierden rigidez e integran la variabilidad. La escala aporta variables que permiten abordar simultáneamente la dimensión cuantitativa (el Cociente de Desarrollo Medio) y la calidad del proceso de desarrollo (el Indice de Armonía). Los primeros ensayos realizados desvelan su utilidad como un test de screening al servicio de la prevención desarrollo infantil. Palabras clave: Psicología del desarrollo; escalas de evaluación del desarrollo infantil; teoría de sistemas dinámicos; desarrollo armónico.Abstract: Professionals interested in the area of psychological assessment are becoming increasingly sensitive towards the need for instruments capable of integrating the systemic and epigenetic character of the developmental process into its design. Most of the proposals put forward in recent decades coincide in considering developmental change as the result of a complex network of transactions between the subject and its developmental contexts at different levels. The Scale of Harmonic Development combines elements sensitive to the dynamism of the ontogenetic process: areas and functions of development which experience generative tensions of quantitative and qualitative change across different levels and stages. These stages, understood as "attractor states -a key concept in the Self-organizing Dynamic Systems Theory-, lose rigidity and integrate variability. The scale provides variables which allow the quantitative dimension (the Average Development Quotient) and the quality of the process of development (the Index of Harmony) to be dealt with at the same time. Initial trials reveal their usefulness as a screening test to serve in child development prevention.

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Changing priority maps in 12- to 18-month-olds: An emerging role for object properties

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Is Cognition Enough to Explain Cognitive Development?

Is Cognition Enough to Explain Cognitive Development?

When the Sound Becomes the Goal. 4E Cognition and Teleomusicality in Early Infancy

Escala de desarrollo armónico. Una propuesta integradora para la evaluación del desarrollo infantil.

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