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The role of object recognition in young infants' object segregation
1Department of Psychology, New York University, NY 10003, USA. sc50@is6.nyu.edu
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
|February 13, 2001
Abstract:
Needham's (2001, this issue) new results confirm that young infants draw on experientially derived representations in resolving individuation ambiguities due to shared boundaries between adjacent objects. They extend previous findings in a surprising way: The memory representations that infants draw upon have bound together information about shape, color, and pattern. Our commentary on these important results draws a distinction between two senses of "recognition" and asks in which sense object recognition contributes to object individuation in these experiments.