Infant Timekeeping: Attention and Temporal Estimation in 4-Month-Olds

Colombo, John; Richman, W. Allen

doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00484

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“…A series of innovative studies of timing in infancy have demonstrated infants' sensitivity to the duration of events and the developmental continuity of the processes involved in time perception (e.g., Brannon et al, 2004;Colombo & Richman, 2002;VanMarle & Wynn, 2006). Moreover, research with older children, much of which has been conducted by Sylvie Droit-Volet, has carefully charted developmental improvements in sensitivity to duration and also identified some of the mechanisms that contribute to such improvements (see Droit-Volet, 2013.…”

Section: Time As a Dimension: Processing Durationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Development of Temporal Concepts: Learning to Locate Events in Time

McCormack¹,

Hoerl

2017

Timing &Amp; Time Perception

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A new model of the development of temporal concepts is described that assumes that there are substantial changes in how children think about time in the early years. It is argued that there is a shift from understanding time in an event-dependent way to an event-independent understanding of time. Early in development, very young children are unable to think about locations in time independently of the events that occur at those locations. It is only with development that children begin to have a proper grasp of the distinction between past, present, and future, and represent time as linear and unidirectional. The model assumes that although children aged two to three years may categorize events differently depending on whether they lie in the past or the future, they may not be able to understand that whether an event is in the future or in the past is something that changes as time passes and varies with temporal perspective. Around four to five years, children understand how causality operates in time, and can grasp the systematic relations that obtain between different locations in time, which provides the basis for acquiring the conventional clock and calendar system.

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Section: Time As a Dimension: Processing Durationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Development of Temporal Concepts: Learning to Locate Events in Time

McCormack¹,

Hoerl

2017

Timing &Amp; Time Perception

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“…In addition to being sensitive to various forms of temporal information, infants can use the passage of time to anticipate a change in the temporal distribution of stimulation (Clifton 1974;Brooks and Berg 1979;Donohue and Berg 1991;Colombo and Richman 2002) and can form expectations based on the temporal distribution of stimulation as early as 2 months of age (Canfield and Haith 1991). Moreover, the earlyappearing ability to predict the future occurrence of visual stimulation is positively linked to childhood full-scale IQ at 46 months of age (Dougherty and Fig.…”

Section: Perception Of Temporal Information In Infancymentioning

confidence: 99%

Serial order processing in human infants and the role of multisensory redundancy

Lewkowicz

2004

Cognitive Processing

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Perception, production, and understanding of sequences is fundamental to human behavior and depends, in large part, on the ability to detect serial order. Despite the importance of this issue across many domains of human functioning, the development of serial order skills has been neglected in developmental studies. The current article reviews evidence that the basic temporal and spatiotemporal skills that are necessary for the development of serial order skills emerge early in human development. The article then presents recent evidence from the author's laboratory showing that serial order perceptual skills emerge at the same time and improve rapidly. Consistent with a multisensory redundancy view of perception, when serial order perceptual abilities first emerge in infancy, they depend critically on the redundant specification of sequences in both the auditory and visual modalities. The findings suggest that infants' ability to perceive the surface serial order characteristics of sequentially organized events provides the necessary antecedents to the development of more complex serial order skills that ultimately enable us to extract meanings from sequentially organized events and perform complex sequential actions.

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“…This has also been widely demonstrated in studies of animals and infants who are capable of estimating temporal intervals despite a lack of temporal reasoning ability. For example, in classical temporal conditioning paradigms, infants automatically react (e.g., pupillary dilatation, heart rate deceleration) to the omission of an event presented at regular intervals (e.g., Brackbill & Fitzgerald, 1972;Colombo & Richman, 2002). Other studies using the standard habituation procedure have also observed infants' reactions to differences in the presentation duration of events (Brannon, Libertus, Meck, & Woldorff, 2008;Brannon, Roussel, Meck, & Woldorff, 2004;De Hevia, Izard, Coubart, Spelke, & Streri, 2014;VanMarle & Wynn, 2006).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%