The individual differences in intellectual flexibility in 10-month-old infants are shown using Piaget’s classic A-not-B task. Infants will continue searching for an object at location A, because this is a natural response. The ability of the child to find the object when it has been relocated to location B, ‘suggests the infant has better coordination of short term/working memory and inhibition of a previously reinforced response’ (Johansson et Al., 2014). Many babies fail at this task because they have not yet required object permanence. However, babies around the ages of 8-12 months, begin to form and abstract mental representation of an object.
Infants display imitation through a variety of different ways. They use tongue-protrusion, lip smacking, lip protrusion, finger movement, blinking, head movement, and facial emotion. Human infants receive enough sensorimotor experience to support associative learning of mirror neurons. Both human and monkey infants …show more content…
Preterm infants are known to be less sensitive to synchronous sights and sounds than their counterparts. Three 5- and 7-month-old preterm infants did not match faces and voices on the basis of synchrony when compared with term infants of the same age (Pickens et al., 1994) Low and high-risk-3-month old preterm infants did not match moving objects to the sounds they make, again on the basis of synchrony, relative to term infants (Lawson et Al., 1984). Clinical neurodevelopmental assessments, like the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, include items that test infants’ perceptual abilities of young preterm infants in word mapping contexts. These can prove insight into how perception leads to language comprehension. The auditory-visual perception literature suggests that human sensitivity to temporally and spatially coordinated auditory-visual stimuli are present at birth and that the senses are relatively undifferentiated or amodal and invariant in nature early on (Gibson,
Infants display imitation through a variety of different ways. They use tongue-protrusion, lip smacking, lip protrusion, finger movement, blinking, head movement, and facial emotion. Human infants receive enough sensorimotor experience to support associative learning of mirror neurons. Both human and monkey infants …show more content…
Preterm infants are known to be less sensitive to synchronous sights and sounds than their counterparts. Three 5- and 7-month-old preterm infants did not match faces and voices on the basis of synchrony when compared with term infants of the same age (Pickens et al., 1994) Low and high-risk-3-month old preterm infants did not match moving objects to the sounds they make, again on the basis of synchrony, relative to term infants (Lawson et Al., 1984). Clinical neurodevelopmental assessments, like the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, include items that test infants’ perceptual abilities of young preterm infants in word mapping contexts. These can prove insight into how perception leads to language comprehension. The auditory-visual perception literature suggests that human sensitivity to temporally and spatially coordinated auditory-visual stimuli are present at birth and that the senses are relatively undifferentiated or amodal and invariant in nature early on (Gibson,