Infants' Developing Sensitivity to Object Function: Attention to Features and Feature Correlations

Autor/inn/en	Baumgartner, Heidi A.; Oakes, Lisa M.
Titel	Infants' Developing Sensitivity to Object Function: Attention to Features and Feature Correlations
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 12 (2011) 3, S.275-298 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
Schlagwörter	Infants; Manipulative Materials; Visual Stimuli; Auditory Perception; Associative Learning; Tactual Perception; Perceptual Motor Learning; Classification; Attention; Cognitive Processes; Concept Formation; Developmental Stages; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Hilfsmittel; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Taktile Wahrnehmung; Perceptual-motor learning; Sensumotorisches Lernen; Wahrnehmungsschulung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Aufmerksamkeit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	When learning object function, infants must detect relations among features--for example, that squeezing is associated with squeaking or that objects with wheels roll. Previously, Perone and Oakes (2006) found 10-month-old infants were sensitive to relations between object appearances and actions, but not to relations between appearances and sounds or actions and sounds. In this article the authors probed the development of infants' attention to feature correlations critical for representing function by testing 8- and 12-month-old infants' (N = 126) sensitivity to such relations. Eight-month-old infants learned individual features but were not sensitive to the relations between those features. Twelve-month-old infants were sensitive to the relation among the features and significantly responded to violations in learned relations between object appearances and actions and between appearances and sounds. Thus, across development, infants become sensitive to an increasing number of relations with age, supporting an information-processing account of the development of object function. (Contains 2 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10