Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "developmental psychology"

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    • Cross-Dimensional Mapping of Number, Length and Brightness by Preschool Children 

      de Hevia, Maria Dolores; Vanderslice, Monica; Spelke, Elizabeth S. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Human adults in diverse cultures, children, infants, and non-human primates relate number to space, but it is not clear whether this ability reflects a specific and privileged number-space mapping. To investigate this ...

    • An Examination of the Own-Race Preference in Infancy 

      Ziv, Talee (2012-10-31)
      The goal of this dissertation was to better characterize the nature of infants’ visual preference for own-race faces, and to test two theories regarding its origin. Chapters I and II assessed whether the race bias in infancy ...

    • Exploring the nature of early social preferences: The case of music 

      Soley, Gaye (2012-08-06)
      This dissertation aims to explore the nature of early social preferences by testing attention to a cue that might have evolved as a reliable signal of shared group membership – shared cultural knowledge. Part 1 shows that ...