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Infant s Examination and Manipulation of Objects

Early Learning and Development Project

This study will explore how babies become able to use their experience with objects to plan to manipulate them appropriately. For example, an adult knows that picking up a grocery bag full of canned food requires different actions than are needed for lifting an empty bag. This study will examine when and how infants first begin to adapt their actions to manipulate specific objects that weigh different amounts.

Participants will include normal healthy babies within 2 weeks of their first birthday. If the expected results are obtained from testing, 9-month-old children will then be studied to identify a lower age boundary in task performance. If the expected results are not obtained at the 12-month test age, older children will be recruited to participate.

The study involves one 30-minute session with the baby and his or her mother or father. The parent will answer some questions about the family, such as its size and ethnic make-up. The infant will then have small magnetic sensors taped to the underside of each arm and to the back. While sitting on the parent s lap, the infant will be presented with plastic toys, and his or her actions will be measured by the sensors as he or she reaches for and picks up the toys. The sensors will be connected to a computer that will track and record the motion of the infant s arms.

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Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Detaljeret beskrivelse

The major objective of this research is to better understand the functional significance of object categorization in early development. The proposed work is designed to examine the emergence of infants ability to access internal categorical representations in service of planning actions on the external environment. Representation, in this capacity, refers simply to stored information that can influence later behavior. Categorization refers to the treatment of discriminable objects as equivalent in some way. Even very young infants appear able to visually categorize diverse sets of discriminable patterns or objects, and can form internal representations of such bounded collections. Much less is known, however, about infants ability to actually utilize such representations in the guidance of goal directed action. The present research is designed to characterize the functional and behavioral significance of object representations in infancy, focusing particularly on categorically organized representations. The primary research strategy to be used consists of analyzing infants examination and manipulation of novel objects that vary both in visual (i.e., shape and color) as well as nonvisual dimensions (i.e., weight). In a laboratory procedure, twelve-month old infants will explore novel objects of different weights, and their subsequent handling of modified test objects will be measured with an electronic motion analysis system. Kinematic analyses of infants actions on the test objects will reveal how these actions were prepared in relation to their previous experience with similar objects.

Undersøgelsestype

Observationel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

350

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

    • Maryland
      • Bethesda, Maryland, Forenede Stater, 20892
        • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

Ikke ældre end 2 år (Barn)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

  • INCLUSION CRITERIA:

Infants will be selected for inclusion in each study on the basis of age, gestational status (i.e., full-term vs. pre-term birth), visual normality, and general health status.

The initial group will be recruited to participate within two weeks on either side of their first birthday (12 months of age).

Equal numbers of males and females will be recruited to participate. If the sample participating in either experiment fails to perform in the manner expected, additional participants will be recruited at older test ages to identify when in the course of development such behavioral guidance emerges. As successive test ages will be separated by 6 month intervals, independent samples of 18-, then 24-month-old children will be recruited until the expected pattern of adaptive actions is observed (cf. Fossberg, et al., 1992).

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Infants with a gestational age of less than 36 weeks, and/or those with histories of severe perinatal complications, visual abnormalities, or congenital developmental disorders will not be recruited for participation.

Studieplan

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Sponsor

Publikationer og nyttige links

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Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

28. januar 2003

Studieafslutning

30. marts 2015

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

30. januar 2003

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

29. januar 2003

Først opslået (Skøn)

30. januar 2003

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

17. december 2019

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

14. december 2019

Sidst verificeret

30. marts 2015

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • 030069
  • 03-CH-0069

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