Symbolic Play Connects to Language through Visual Object Recognition

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Linda B.; Jones, Susan S.
Titel	Symbolic Play Connects to Language through Visual Object Recognition
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 14 (2011) 5, S.1142-1149 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01065.x
Schlagwörter	Play; Recognition (Psychology); Visual Perception; Language Acquisition; Infants; Child Development; Developmental Delays + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Recognition; Wiedererkennen; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Kindesentwicklung; Entwicklungsverzögerung
Abstract	Object substitutions in play (e.g. using a box as a car) are strongly linked to language learning and their absence is a diagnostic marker of language delay. Classic accounts posit a symbolic function that underlies both words and object substitutions. Here we show that object substitutions depend on developmental changes in visual object recognition: 18- to 30-month old children (n = 63) substitute objects in play after they have developed the adult-like ability to recognize common objects from sparse models of their geometric structure. These developmental changes in object recognition are a better predictor of object substitutions than language or age. A developmental pathway connecting visual object recognition, object name learning, and symbolic play is proposed in which object substitutions are like the canary in the coal mine: they are not causally related to language delay, but their absence is an easily detected signal of a problem in language acquisition. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10