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Peer reviewedQuinn, Paul C.; Bhatt, Ramesh S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Reflects on Needham's findings on infants' object recognition and segregation. Examines the role for perceptual bias in explaining infant performance, places Needham's studies in historical perspective, and assesses their theoretical significance. Discusses the merits of positing different kinds of information sources for object segregation, and…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedLeslie, Alan M.; Kaldy, Zsuzsa – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Discusses Needham's findings that infants individuate objects by feature, within the framework of brain mechanisms that index or track individual objects, drawing upon theories of attention and working memory developed in the study of adults. Considers Needham's work as contributing to an understanding of categorization and the effect of object…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Attention, Classification
Direct linkCimpian, Andrei; Markman, Ellen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
There is debate about whether preschool-age children interpret words as referring to kinds or to classes defined by shape similarity. The authors argue that the shape bias reported in previous studies is a task-induced artifact rather than a genuine word-learning strategy. In particular, children were forced to extend an object's novel label to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Associative Learning, Word Recognition, Learning Strategies
