Defining the Role Of Language in Infants' Object Categorization with Eye-tracking Paradigms.

ABSTRACT: Assessing infant category learning is a challenging but vital aspect of studying infant cognition. By employing a familiarization-test paradigm, we straightforwardly measure infants' success in learning a novel category while relying only on their looking behavior. Moreover, the paradigm can directly measure the impact of different auditory signals on the infant categorization across a range of ages. For instance, we assessed how 2-year-olds learn categories in a variety of labeling environments: in our task, 2-year-olds successfully learned categories when all exemplars were labeled or the first two exemplars were labeled, but they failed to categorize when no exemplars were labeled or only the final two exemplars were labeled. To determine infants' success in such tasks, researchers can

SUBMITTER: LaTourrette A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010332 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature