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Preserved visual representations despite change blindness in infants
Author(s) -
Wang Suhua,
Mitroff Stephen R.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
developmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.801
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1467-7687
pISSN - 1363-755X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00800.x
Subject(s) - psychology , blindness , change blindness , visual perception , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , perception , optometry , neuroscience , medicine
Abstract Combining theoretical hypotheses of infant cognition and adult perception, we present evidence that infants can maintain visual representations despite their failure to detect a change. Infants under 12 months typically fail to notice a change to an object's height in a covering event. The present experiments demonstrated that 11‐month‐old infants can nevertheless maintain a viable representation of both the pre‐ and post‐change heights despite their ‘change blindness’. These results suggest that infants, like adults, can simultaneously maintain multiple representations, even if they do not optimally use them.