Infants' sensitivity to correlations between static and dynamic features in a category context

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
David H Rakison

Abstract

Four experiments with the habituation procedure investigated 14-22-month-olds' ability to attend to correlations between static and dynamic features embedded in a category context. In Experiment 1, infants were habituated to four objects that exhibited invariant relations between moving features and motion trajectory. Results revealed that 14-month-olds did not process any independent features, 18-month-olds processed individual features but not relations among features, and 22-month-olds processed relations among features. In Experiment 2, 14-month-olds differentiated all of the features in the events in a simpler discrimination task. In Experiments 3a and 3b, 22-month-olds failed to show sensitivity to correlations between dynamic and static features in a category context. In Experiment 4, 22-month-olds, but not 18-month-olds, generalized the learned feature-motion relation to a novel instance. The results are discussed in relation to infants' developing ability to attend to correlations, constraints on learning, category coherence, and the development of the animate-inanimate distinction.

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May 5, 2005·Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·David H Rakison
Jul 9, 2008·Developmental Psychology·Lorraine E Bahrick, Lisa C Newell
Nov 9, 2011·Developmental Psychology·Nicholaus S Noles, Susan A Gelman
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