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Davidoff, Jules; Goldstein, Julie; Roberson, Debi – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
We respond to the commentary of Franklin, Wright, and Davies ("Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102", 239-245 [2009]) by returning to the simple contrast between nature and nurture. We find no evidence from the toddler data that makes us revise our ideas that color categories are learned and never innate. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Nature Nurture Controversy, Toddlers, Color
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Roberson, Debi; Hanley, J. Richard; Pak, Hyensou – Cognition, 2009
Categorical perception (CP) is said to occur when a continuum of equally spaced physical changes is perceived as unequally spaced as a function of category membership (Harnad, S. (Ed.) (1987). Psychophysical and cognitive aspects of categorical perception: A critical overview. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). A common suggestion is that CP…
Descriptors: Color, Classification, Visual Discrimination, Task Analysis
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Heaton, Pamela; Ludlow, Amanda; Roberson, Debi – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2008
In two experiments children with autism and two groups of controls matched for either chronological or non-verbal mental age were tested on tasks of colour discrimination and memory. The results from experiment 1 showed significantly poorer colour discrimination in children with autism in comparison to typically developing chronological age…
Descriptors: Autism, Memory, Visual Discrimination, Color