Johnson M H
MRC Cognitive Development Unit, University College London, UK.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1994 Apr;4(2):218-25. doi: 10.1016/0959-4388(94)90076-0.
Recent behavioral studies of infants have provided further evidence for the existence of cognitive and perceptual abilities in the first few months of life. Additional evidence from developmental neuroscience and comparative psychology has supported the view that, in some domains, such as visual attention and face and speech recognition, multiple neurocognitive processes give rise to the pattern of behavioral development observed over the first years of life. Primitive abilities and constraints present from birth may play an important role in facilitating the development of later-emerging processes that are more responsive to the effects of experience. In other domains, such as object permanence and memory, previous claims that the pattern of development was best accounted for by the sequential development of multiple neurocognitive systems have been brought into question.
近期对婴儿的行为研究为生命最初几个月存在认知和感知能力提供了进一步证据。来自发展神经科学和比较心理学的其他证据支持了这样一种观点，即在某些领域，如视觉注意力、面部和语音识别，多种神经认知过程导致了生命最初几年所观察到的行为发展模式。出生时就存在的原始能力和限制可能在促进对经验影响更敏感的后期出现的过程的发展中发挥重要作用。在其他领域，如客体永久性和记忆，先前关于发展模式最好由多个神经认知系统的顺序发展来解释的说法受到了质疑。
