Abstract
Researchers, including Needham (2001, this issue), have found that infants as young as 4.5 months of age have the ability to use featural information to segregate objects. However, considerable research on infants' perception of color, shape, size, orientation, and so on has shown that infants younger than 4.5 months are capable of using these featural cues to discriminate between objects or other test items. Infants as young as 2 months of age also can perceive a moving object as unified. In this article, we argue for an information processing explanation of these results, which centers on the development of infants' ability to integrate both featural and object information. The proposed explanation is based upon L. B. Cohen's (1991, 1998) information processing propositions and is consistent with the evidence on object segregation as well as evidence from our laboratory and others' on infant perception and cognition.
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