Research Article

Infants Actively Construct and Update Their Representations of Physical Events: Evidence from Change Detection by 12-Month-Olds

Table 1

Mean looking times (in seconds) and standard deviations (in parentheses) at the change and no-change events, separately per experiment and condition.

Event
ChangeNo-changeCohen’s
(SD) (SD)

Experiment  1
 Short-to-tall condition35.0 (12.9)17.7 (10.5)1.48
 Tall-to-short condition33.6 (15.9)15.8 (6.6)1.46
Experiment  2
 Show-cover condition34.0 (18.7)15.8 (7.2)1.28
 Show-tube condition16.2 (6.0)17.1 (5.9)0.825−0.16
Experiment  3
 Postinteraction condition29.7 (16.1)8.7 (3.9)1.79
 Preinteraction condition18.5 (10.3)22.5 (13.8)0.508−0.33

Note. < 0.05.