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Direct linkCasasola, Marianella – Child Development, 2005
Two experiments explored how infants learn to form an abstract categorical representation of support (i.e., on) when habituated to few (i.e., 2) or many (i.e., 6) examples of the relation. When habituated to 2 pairs of objects in a support relation, 14-month-olds, but not 10-month-olds, formed the abstract spatial category (i.e., generalized the…
Descriptors: Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Classification, Habituation
