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What is Knowledge of the Continued Existence of Objects Even When They Are Not Directly Perceived

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Object permanence is the capacity to represent objects as persisting in time and space independently of perception.

Introduction

Object permanence is one of the most studied abilities in animal cognition. In the early twentieth century, researchers investigated memory by hiding a food reward in one of several opaque containers and allowing the animal to retrieve it after a delay (e.g., Tinklepaugh 1928). This research on delayed reactions tacitly involved object permanence, which was not explicitly considered a separate cognitive capacity until the influential studies of Piaget (1954). He found that children develop object permanence in stages throughout early childhood. Behavioral biologists and comparative psychologists later used the Piagetian framework to document the cognitive development of various species. They discovered that not all species reach all six stages of object permanence as humans do while acknowledging that the Piagetian tasks are not suitable for many...

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  1. Animal Behaviour and Cognition, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jeroen Zewald

  2. Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Ivo Jacobs

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  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University Department of Psychology, Rochester, MI, USA

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Zewald, J., Jacobs, I. (2021). Object Permanence. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_2103-1

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