Cognitive development in kittens (Felis catus): An observational study of object permanence and sensorimotor intelligence.

1991 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Dumas ◽  
François Y. Doré
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Object Permanence ◽  
Felis Catus ◽  
Sensorimotor Intelligence

Natural Indicators of Cognitive Development: An Observational Study of Rural Guatemalan Children

Ethos ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara B. Nerlove ◽  
John M. Roberts ◽  
Robert E. Klein ◽  
Charles Yarbrough ◽  
Jean-Pierre Habicht
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Observational Study

Does cognitive development move beyond sensorimotor intelligence?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-62
Author(s):  
Catherine Sophian
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Movement Planning ◽  
Symbolic Cognition ◽  
Sensorimotor Intelligence

Thelen et al.'s account of cognition as the dynamic interaction of processes of perceiving, reaching, and remembering within a movement planning field is a useful articulation of the Piagetian concept of sensorimotor cognition. The claim that the same kind of analysis applies to all kinds of cognition at all ages, however, is questioned in light of the distinction between sensorimotor and symbolic cognition.

Human Analog Tests of the Sixth Stage of Object Permanence

1995 ◽  
Vol 80 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1059-1068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Heishman ◽  
Mindy Conant ◽  
Robert Pasnak
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Object Permanence ◽  
Secondary Reinforcer ◽  
Human Infants ◽  
Invisible Displacement ◽  
Sensorimotor Intelligence ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
Analog Tests ◽  
Adult Cats

Two adult cats were tested on multiple invisible displacement. A dowel was established as a secondary reinforcer and hidden in a manner similar to that used to assess the culmination of sensorimotor intelligence in human infants. Three other cats were tested on single invisible displacement, a simpler version of the task. For human infants, this task is used to assess the beginning of mental representation in the sixth and last stage of sensorimotor intelligence. The cats' searches on these tasks were consistent with representation of an unsensed object and fully developed sensorimotor intelligence.

An embodied theory of cognitive development: Within reach?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Lockman
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Object Permanence ◽  
Theoretical Account ◽  
General Account ◽  
Dynamic Field ◽  
Stage 4 ◽  
Dynamic Field Theory

Thelen et al. not only offer an important new theoretical account of the Stage 4 object permanence error but provide the foundation of a new theory of cognitive development that is grounded in action. The success of dynamic field theory as a more general account of cognitive functioning, however, will depend on the degree to which it can model more generative capacities that are not limited to simple choice situations. Imitation and problem solving are suggested as two capacities that might be productively modeled within their approach.

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