Language level predicts perceptual categorization of complex reversible events in children.

ABSTRACT: Language plays a well-documented role in perceptual object categorization, but little is known about its role in the categorization of complex events. We explored this here with a perspective from age or developmentally appropriate language capacities in neurotypical children between the ages of two and four years (N = 21), and from delayed language development in a clinical group of children (N = 20), whose verbal mental ages (VMA) often fell far below their chronological ages (CAs). All participants watched two demonstrations of a series of transitive events (e.g. tiger jumps over a girl). The toy agents were then moved out of sight, and participants had to act out the same event type, based on a different tiger and girl that were selected among two distractors. We aimed to determ

SUBMITTER: Hinzen W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9294198 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature