Naming guides how 12-month-old infants encode and remember objects.

ABSTRACT: A foundation of human cognition is the flexibility with which we can represent any object as either a unique individual (my dog Fred) or a member of an object category (dog, animal). This conceptual flexibility is supported by language; the way we name an object is instrumental to our construal of that object as an individual or a category member. Evidence from a new recognition memory task reveals that infants are sensitive to this principled link between naming and object representation by age 12 mo. During training, all infants (n = 77) viewed four distinct objects from the same object category, each introduced in conjunction with either the same novel noun (Consistent Name condition), a distinct novel noun for each object (Distinct Names condition), or the same sine-wave tone se

SUBMITTER: LaTourrette AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7474636 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature