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Looking closely at infants' performance and experimental procedures in the A-not-B task

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Adele Diamond
Affiliation:
Center for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at University of Massachusetts Medical School, Waltham, MA 02452 adiamond@shriver.org www.shriver.org/research/irc/cdcn/staff/diamond.htm
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Abstract

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Thelen et al.'s model of A-not-B performance is based on behavioral observations obtained with a paradigm markedly different from A-not-B. Central components of the model are not central to A-not-B performance. All data presented fit a simpler model, which specifies that the key abilities for success on A-not-B are working memory and inhibition. Intention and action can be dissociated in infants and adults.

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© 2001 Cambridge University Press