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What's in a Shape? Children Represent Shape Variability Differently than Adults When Naming Objects.
Peer reviewedAbecassis, Maurissa; Sera, Maria D.; Yonas, Albert; Schwade, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Investigated degree to which two shape dimensions were represented categorically by children and adults when learning object names. Found that adults accepted names more often to objects that fell within proposed shape boundaries than to objects that crossed boundaries. Children were just as likely to generalize names to novel objects that fell…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bias, Children
