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object individuation: a standalone construct

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Cognitive development

the ability to establish how many distinct objects are present in an event, which young infants do from spatiotemporal cues before they use object kind or features.

In cognitive development, object individuation refers to the ability to establish how many distinct objects are present in an event, which young infants do from spatiotemporal cues before they use object kind or features. This meaning comes from Xu (1996) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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References

Xu, F., & Carey, S. (1996). Infants’ Metaphysics: The Case of Numerical Identity. Cognitive Psychology, 30(2), 111-153. https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.1996.0005

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