Object Representation Essay

Cognition is the organization of understandings based on perception, memories, beliefs etc (Streri, de Hevia, Izard & Coubart, 2013). The narrowing of the understanding of cognition tends to lead to a connection to the concept of representations (Streri, de Hevia, Izard & Coubart, 2013). Representations is the formation of a memory (Streri, de Hevia, Izard & Coubart, 2013). Object representations is a fundamental ability for everyday interactions (Feigenson & Yamaguchi, 2009). For example, one look around a room full of people it is easy to pick out the people you know and the people you don’t (Scott, 2011). Even though representations are a fundamental aspect in environments it also has accompanying challenges (Feigenson & Yamaguchi, 2009). When object representations are formed, objects must be understood as individuals despite perceptual shifts such as shadows (Feigenson & Yamaguchi, 2009). The challenges that accompany object representation have been found to be resolved during infancy (Feigenson & Yamaguchi, 2009). Infants have been shown to be competent with object representation …show more content…
More specifically, most infant research on object individuation focuses on the ability to establish that there is one object or two objects shown in the display through object tracking, such as following a ball across a stage after it has passed behind an occluder, similar to Figure 1 (Van de Walle, Carey, & Prevor, 2000). For example, in the everyday life of an adult, greeting a person who entered the room and knowing that, assuming they leave and return, it is the same person or a different person based on the three types of information sources (Kingo & Krøjgaard,