Four-Month-Old Infants’ Categorization of Animals: Does Any Body Part Hold Privileged Status?

Vidic, Janice M.; Haaf, Robert A.

doi:10.1007/bf03395469

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“…French et al (2004) observed that 3-to 4-month-old infants' attention to this distinction is highly dependent on the level of within-category similarity. Interestingly, many studies showing this sensitivity in 3-to 4-month-old infants have used items drawn from exactly the same set of stimuli (Fumer & Younger, 2005;Mareschal, French, & Quinn, 2000;Mareschal, Quinn, & French, 2002;Quinn & Eimas, 1996a, 1996bQuinn et al, 1993;Quinn et al, 2001 ;Vidic & Haaf, 2004). Thus, young infants' attention to the distinction between dogs and cats may not be as robust as it at first appears.…”

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The Cat is out of the Bag: The Joint Influence of Previous Experience and Looking Behavior on Infant Categorization

Kovack-Lesh

Horst

Oakes

2008

Infancy

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We examined the effect of 4‐month‐old infants' previous experience with dogs, cats, or both and their online looking behavior on their learning of the adult‐defined category of cat in a visual familiarization task. Four‐month‐old infants' (N = 123) learning in the laboratory was jointly determined by whether or not they had experience with pets at home and how much they shifted their gaze back and forth between the stimuli during familiarization. Specifically, only infants with pets at home who also exhibited high levels of switching during familiarization remembered the individual cat exemplars or formed a summary representation of those cats. These results are consistent with recent theorizing about the processes of how infants' categorical representations are formed, and provide new understanding into how infants' categorization unfolds over time.

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The Cat is out of the Bag: The Joint Influence of Previous Experience and Looking Behavior on Infant Categorization

Kovack-Lesh

Horst

Oakes

2008

Infancy

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“…Young infants possess remarkable categorization skills, and they readily categorize objects, such as faces, animals, furniture, vehicles, tools, and plants (e.g., Behl-Chada, 1996; Bomba, 1984; Bornstein & Arterberry, 2003; Oakes, Madole, & Cohen, 1991; Younger, 1993; see Bornstein, 1984; Quinn & Eimas, 1996, and Madole & Oakes, 1999, for reviews). Many studies have analyzed the bases of infant categorization by focusing on features intrinsic to objects, like the face or type of movement (e.g., Arterberry & Bornstein, 2001, 2002; Quinn & Eimas, 1996; Vidic & Haaf, 2004). In the present study, we were concerned with the role of external context in determining object group membership for infants.…”

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Infant object categorization transcends diverse object–context relations

Bornstein

Arterberry

Mash

2010

Infant Behavior and Development

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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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“…Studies that further examined basic‐level categorization showed that infants form categories for dogs and cats by 3 months of age, with a similar asymmetry such that the category of cats is subsumed by the category of dogs 12. Infants form the same categories even when presented with silhouettes of the animals or silhouettes of their heads, which suggests that the shape of the animal's head gives sufficient information to provide a basis for categorization 22,23…”

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Infant categorization

Rakison

Yermolayeva

2010

WIRES Cognitive Science

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In this article, we review the principal findings on infant categorization from the last 30 years. The review focuses on behaviorally based experiments with visual preference, habituation, object examining, sequential touching, and inductive generalization procedures. We propose that although this research has helped to elucidate the 'what' and 'when' of infant categorization, it has failed to clarify the mechanisms that underpin this behavior and the development of concepts. We outline a number of reasons for why the field has failed in this regard, most notably because of the context-specific nature of infant categorization and a lack of ground rules in interpreting data. We conclude by suggesting that one remedy for this issue is for infant categorization researchers to adopt more of an interdisciplinary approach by incorporating imaging and computational methods into their current methodological arsenal. WIREs Cogn Sci 2010 1 894-905 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.

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Four-Month-Old Infants’ Categorization of Animals: Does Any Body Part Hold Privileged Status?

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

The Cat is out of the Bag: The Joint Influence of Previous Experience and Looking Behavior on Infant Categorization

The Cat is out of the Bag: The Joint Influence of Previous Experience and Looking Behavior on Infant Categorization

Infant object categorization transcends diverse object–context relations

Infant categorization

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