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Kimura, Atsushi; Wada, Yuji; Yang, Jiale; Otsuka, Yumiko; Dan, Ippeita; Masuda, Tomohiro; Kanazawa, So; Yamaguchi, Masami K. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
We explored infants' ability to recognize the canonical colors of daily objects, including two color-specific objects (human face and fruit) and a non-color-specific object (flower), by using a preferential looking technique. A total of 58 infants between 5 and 8 months of age were tested with a stimulus composed of two color pictures of an object…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Visual Stimuli, Recognition (Psychology)
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Athanasopoulos, Panos; Kasai, Chise – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
Recent research shows that speakers of languages with obligatory plural marking (English) preferentially categorize objects based on common shape, whereas speakers of nonplural-marking classifier languages (Yucatec and Japanese) preferentially categorize objects based on common material. The current study extends that investigation to the domain…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Grammar