It Starts Early!.. Why he put it in his mouth

In the article Early biases and developmental changes in self-generated object views, researchers go more in-depth into just how early we begin to form a bias in the way we view objects. They examine this by studying children 12-36 months of age (with parent supervision). During the study, they place a mini video camera that is situated onto a headband on the heads of the children to monitor how they held the objects and in what positions they oriented them in. They found that the younger the children (12-18 months) were more disorganized in their viewing and held the object longer which can be identified as a type of information processing. This means they are trying to take in all the visual stimuli in front of them and make some sense of it. Wherein contrast, the older children (19-36 months) had a shorter holding time and they had a more structured form of viewing manipulation and preferred to view the objects in the predicted planar view. Raising the argument that recognition begins later in the early development stage than we previously thought.

This sort of surprised me, because from previous articles we've gone through where younger children do seem to pick up on a generalized basis on what an object is. But I guess what we get from this article is that during the developmental period as children get older their viewpoint on the object recognition becomes more biased and in my opinion more precise and structured. These subtle changes in vantage point help them to start filling in the pieces of the world around them and help them to determine objects from different positions. INTERESTING!!!

#TODDLERTIP... There are many different ways to help your child with object recognition and orientation! Try moving their favorite toy forwards and backward and upside down and see if they can still locate and identify the toy. To make it a little more challenging see if they can tell which is which by adding a second toy!

References

Pereira, A. F., James, K. H., Jones, S. S., & Smith, L. B. (2010). Early biases and developmental changes in self-generated object views. Journal of vision, 10(11), 22-22.

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