The Beginnings of Tool Use by Infants and Toddlers

Infancy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 233-256

  McCarty, Michael E ^a   Clifton, Rachel K ^a   Collard, Roberta R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002834541     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0202_8     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Bates, E. (1979). The emergence of symbols: Cognition and communication in infancy. New York: Academic.
2. Brown, A. L. (1989). Analogical learning and transfer: What develops? In S. Vousniadov & A. Ortony (Eds.), Similarity and analogical reasoning (pp. 369-412). New York: Cambridge University Press.
3. Bruner, J. S. (1970). The growth and structure of skill. In K. Connolly (Ed.), Mechanisms of motor skill development (pp. 63-92). New York: Academic.
4. Chen, Z., & Siegler, R. S. (2000). Across the great divide: Bridging the gap between understanding of toddlers' and older children's thinking. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 65(2, Serial No. 261).
5. Clifton, R. K., Muir, D. W., Ashmead, D. H., & Clarkson, M. G. (1993). Is visually guided reaching in early infancy a myth? Child Development, 64, 1099-1110.
6. Connolly, K., & Dalgleish, M. (1989). The emergence of a tool-using skill in infancy. Developmental Psychology, 25, 894-912.
7. Fenson, L., Kagan, J., Kearsley, R. B., & Zelazo, P. R. (1976). The developmental progression of manipulative play in the first two years. Child Development, 47, 232-236.
8. Fitts, P. M. (1954). The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 47, 381-391.
9. Gesell, A., & Ilg, F. L. (1937). Feeding behavior of infants. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
10. Greenfield, P. M. (1991). Language, tools and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 14, 531-595.
11. Greer, T., & Lockman, J. J. (1998). Using writing instruments: Invariances in young children and adults. Child Development, 69, 888-902.
12. Howell, D. C. (1987). Statistical methods for psychology (2nd ed.). Boston: Duxbury.
13. Jeannerod, M. (1997). The cognitive neuroscience of action. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
14. Johnson, S. H. (2000). Thinking ahead: The case for motor imagery in prospective judgements of prehension. Cognition, 74, 33-70.
15. Johnson, S. H., McCarty, M. E., & Clifton, R. K. (2000). When Fitts' law fits, and when itdoesn't: Cognitive constraints on the timecourse of object-oriented reaching. Manuscript submitted for publication.
16. Koslowski, B., & Bruner, J. S. (1972). Learning to use a lever. Child Development, 43, 790-799.
17. Kosslyn, S. M., & Pomerantz, J. R. (1977). Imagery, propositions, and the form of internal representations. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 52-76.
18. Lockman, J. (2000). A perception-action perspective on tool use development. Child Development, 71, 137-144.
19. Lockman, J. J., & Ashmead, D. H. (1983). Asynchronies in the development of manual behavior. In L. Lipsitt (Ed.), Advances in infancy research (Vol. 2, pp. 113-136). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
20. Marteniuk, R. G., Jeannerod, M., Athenes, S., & Dugas, C. (1987). Constraints on human arm movement trajectories. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 41, 365-378.
21. McCarty, M. E., Clifton, R K., Ashmead, D. H., Lee, P., & Goubet, N. (in press). How infants use vision for grasping objects. Child Development.
22. McCarty, M. E., Clifton, R. K., & Collard, R. R. (1999). Problem solving in infancy: The emergence of an action plan. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1091-1101.
23. Miller, G. A., Galanter, E., & Pribram, K. H. (1960). Plans and the structure of behavior. New York: Holt.
24. Morgan, R., & Rochat, P. (1997). Intermodal calibration of the body in early infancy. Ecological Psychology, 9, 1-23.
25. Oakley, K. P. (1959). Man the tool-maker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
26. Parker, S. T., & Gibson, K. R. (1977). Object manipulation, tool use and sensorimotor intelligence as feeding adaptations in cebus monkeys and great apes. Journal of Human Evolution, 6, 623-641.
27. Piaget, J. (1952). The origins of intelligence in children (M. Cook, Trans.). New York: Norton. (Original work published 1936)
28. Rochat, P. (1998). Self-perception and action in infancy. Experimental Brain Research, 123, 102-109.
29. Rochat, P., & Morgan, R. (1995). Spatial determinants of self-produced leg movements by 3- to 5-month-old infants. Developmental Psychology, 31, 626-636.
30. Rosenbaum, D. A., Vaughan, J., Barnes, H. J., & Jorgensen, M. J. (1992). Time course of movement planning: Selection of handgrips for object manipulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 1058-1073.
31. Rosenbaum, D. A., Vaughan, J., Jorgensen, M. J., Barnes, H. J., & Stewart, E. (1993). Plans for object manipulation. In D. E. Meyer & S. Kornblum (Eds.), Attention and performance XIV (pp. 803-820). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
32. Shepard, R. N., & Metzler, J. (1971, February 19). Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171, 701-703.
33. Tomasello, M., & Call, J. (1997). Primate cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.
34. Washburn, S. L., & Moore, R. (1980). Ape into human: A study of human evolution (2nd ed.). Boston: Little, Brown.
35. Willatts, P. (1984). The Stage-W infant's solution of problems requiring the use of supports. Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 125-134.
36. Zelazo, P. R., & Kearsley, R. B. (1980). The emergence of functional play in infants: Evidence for a major cognitive transition. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 1, 95-117.