Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10452780 | Infant Behavior and Development | 2010 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Infants' categorization of objects in different object-context relations was investigated. The experiment used a multiple-exemplar habituation-categorization procedure where 92 6-month olds formed categories of animals and vehicles embedded in congruent, incongruent, and homogeneous object-context relations. Across diverse object-context relations, infants habituated to multiple exemplars within a category and categorized novel members of both animal and vehicle categories. Infants showed a slight advantage for categorizing animals. Infant object categorization appears to be robust to diversity in object-context relations.
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Authors
Marc H. Bornstein, Martha E. Arterberry, Clay Mash,