Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

I appreciate all the Reflections that have provided an interesting set of ideas and perspectives. I will focus my response on three topics raised in the Reflections that I think are the most important issues for stimulating progress in this area of research. First, I will consider questions about how to characterize the different kinds of information or knowledge infants use when segregating objects, as well as how to characterize the relations among these kinds of knowledge. Second, I will discuss the possible relations between the processes underlying object segregation and those involved in a variety of other abilities such as object individuation, object indexing, and figure–ground segregation. Finally, I will consider the roles of visual versus linguistic representations in tasks that require object representation (such as those listed above).