The Development of Object Construction from Infancy through Toddlerhood.

ABSTRACT: Early in development, children explore and combine objects in increasingly complex ways. One manual skill, object construction, represents a major shift in how objects are explored relative to other objects. Despite recent connections with cognitive functioning such as spatial skills, the development of object construction ability has rarely been studied and its trajectory has not been adequately described. The purpose of this study was to describe the development of three types of object construction (stacking, nesting, affixing) across 5 monthly infant visits and 7 monthly toddler visits using a longitudinal design and a large sample size. Infants (10-14 months, n=131) and toddlers drawn from the infant sample (18-24 months, n=65) were given sets of age-appropriate toys each of which eli

SUBMITTER: Marcinowski EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7197730 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature