“…Thus, one might expect that watching an event on video would be almost like watching it directly, so that even 2-year-olds would succeed at the video task. In support of the possibility that a video event might essentially be transparent to young children, several researchers have reported that primates are able to retrieve objects after seeing them hidden on video (Menzel, Premack, & Woodruff, 1978;Vauclair, 1996). Experiment 1 describes 2-year-old children's retrieval of an object they had seen being hidden on video, Experiment 2 reports performance of the same age group for a directly observed hiding event, and Experiment 3 tests an interpretation of their performance in the first two studies.…”