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Babies Probably Have Object Permanence

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Babies Probably Have Object Permanence

I had previously been under the impression that babies don’t have object permanence– the knowledge that things continue to exist when you’re not looking at them. However, I recently learned that the balance of the evidence in developmental psychology is that babies have object permanence from an extremely young age. If babies perceived the world as a series of images rather than a set of stable…

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There’s something delightfully geeky in these studies, something that made my brain return “ah yes, it would be silly to refactor the entire perception system on the fly from procedural to object-oriented, but the "Item::fetch” method needs to be debugged to deal properly with a changing environment…“

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    I think it’s more likely that infants have an instinct for gaze-following and just look where their mother is looking...

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