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Infants' Understanding of the Physical World A major focus of the research carried out in our lab is infants' understanding of the physical world. As adults, we possess many expectations about how objects move in space and interact with other subjects. Which of these expectations do infants share, and how do they attain them? In an attempt to answer these questions, we have been studying infants' understanding of five different types of physical events: support, occlusion, collision, uncovering, and containment events. The results obtained in each project are detailed in this article.
Over the past 20 years, the field of infant cognition has undergone a quiet revolution: Most researchers are now convinced that infants are far more competent than was traditionally believed. Champaign-Urbana babies have played a very significant role in this revolution.
A New Round of Research Rattles Old Ideas of How Infants Interpret the World "A professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ms. Baillargeon works with infants as young as two and a half months old to test what they know about the world they so recently joined. Her experiments and those of others are transforming researchers' understanding of how human brains develop the skills necessary to grasp a bottle and, eventually, the fundamentals of Euclidean geometry." Copyright 2000, by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Posted with permission on The Infant Cognition Lab Website. This article may not be reposted, published, or redistributed without express permission from The Chronicle.
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