What was that? The development of visual working memory in infants

Zsuzsa Kaldy
Infant Cognition Lab
Department of Psychology
University of Massachusetts at Boston

How do infants represent objects? Research in the past 
two decades has shown that infants’ knowledge about 
their physical world is surprisingly rich. In this talk, 
I will discuss some of these studies, with a focus on 
the early processing of perceptual features. How can 
infants tell if a particular object that they are seeing 
is the same one that they saw before? I will show that 
young infants remember some features of objects but not 
others, and present some hypotheses about why such 
differences occur.