Research Projects

Sep, 2020 - Mar, 2022

The development of play in infancy: in relation to the affordances of the objects in the daily environment

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Grant number
20K22253
Japan Grant Number (JGN)
JP20K22253
Grant amount
(Total)
1,950,000 Japanese Yen
(Direct funding)
1,500,000 Japanese Yen
(Indirect funding)
450,000 Japanese Yen

This study investigated the infants' spontaneous play with everyday objects and examined the influence of the object interaction in the living environment on the development of play in relation to the affordance perception. The longitudinal observation was conducted in infants' homes, and their interactions with a wide variety of objects in their living environment, including daily necessities and toys, were analyzed. Infants explored affordances of various objects, and as their locomotion ability developed their object play began to involve carrying them with containers. Taking objects out of and putting them in containers and storage was frequently observed in the early ages as a play and the behavior developed through integration into the social environment. These findings suggest that rearranging objects in the daily context influences social development and long term cognition.

Link information
KAKEN
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-20K22253
ID information
  • Grant number : 20K22253
  • Japan Grant Number (JGN) : JP20K22253