Attention to Multiple Cues During Spontaneous Object Labeling

Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
Rachel WuD H Rakison

Abstract

It is well established that 2-year-olds attribute a novel label to an object's global shape rather than local features (i.e., parts). Although recent studies have found that younger infants also attend to global rather than local features when given a label, the test stimuli in these experiments confounded parts and shape by varying both or neither. With infants (16- and 24-month-olds) and adults, this experiment disentangled shape and parts with appropriate test objects. Results showed a clear development of a strategy incorporating multiple cues. Across three age groups, there was an increase in generalizing labels to objects matching the exemplar's local and global features (parts, base, and shape), and a decrease to objects matching in only one local feature. We discuss these results in terms of a learned flexibility in using multiple cues to predict lexical categories.

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Nov 29, 2013·Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies·Chris A Lawson, David H Rakison
Oct 23, 2013·Cognitive Processing·Sandro Rama FioriniMara Abel

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